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Reader Poll
Have a say on these robotics solutions before they enter the market!
We have gathered robots which are being developed right now or have just entered the market. We have set these up in a survey style consultation.
24 September 2022, by
Robotics4EU
Should a care robot bring an alcoholic a drink? It depends on who owns the robot
In a care scenario, a robot may have been purchased by the patient, by the doctor or hospital (which sent it home with the patient to monitor their health), or by a concerned family member who wants t...
24 February 2015, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Should ownership influence the decision-making of a care robot?
For the past few months, the Open Roboethics initiative have been exploring the topic of care robots. During one of our meetings, we got into a discussion about whether the ownership of a robot sho...
11 February 2015, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
How much interaction with a robot is socially acceptable?
We have a tall order when it comes to dreaming up a trustworthy care robot: a robot could clean the house, find and fetch objects, and even keep seniors company. But if robots take on so many daily c...
13 January 2015, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Readers optimistic about role of robots as care assistants for seniors
Developing robots that are capable of taking care of seniors is the goal of an increasing number of robotics companies. While there are many economic and social factors to encourage this trend, the ...
25 November 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Would you trust a robot to take care of your grandpa?
One of the driving forces of social, interactive robotics is the issue of impending labour shortage, which is projected to be one of the major and inevitable consequences of the ageing population phe...
11 November 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Reader poll: Home robots — appliance or companion?
While vacuum robots continue to dominate the ‘robots at home’ market, with Jibo taking on the role of the top 5 most funded Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign, and Pepper expected to arrive at ...
17 September 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Impact of robocars perceived as net positive even if jobs are displaced
Will robots take away our jobs? Will we be better off with robots even if they do?
One Forbes article published last year by Chunka Mui focused the jobs issue on autonomous cars. In the article tit...
15 September 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Reader poll: Will autonomous cars create more jobs than they displace?
One of the most popular questions when it comes to discussing robotics is the jobs question. Will robots create more jobs, or replace them? Recently, we’ve seen a lot of discussions on the topic o...
03 September 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Readers support cars that communicate and self-organize
The conventional cars that we drive today don’t really talk to one another. Sure, some of them connect to your cellphones and mp3 players. But they don’t form a communication network with neighbou...
01 September 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
If drinking and driving, ride the car that doesn’t need your input or let it go home w/o you
For the past few months the Open Roboethics initiative and Robohub have explored the topic of autonomous cars in the form of biweekly polls. We were able to find out a lot of interesting facts about w...
18 August 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Readers split on whether they will miss driving their non-autonomous car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-MGQqaY3eo
Driving has become an integral component of our daily lives, especially in developed countries. Cars are not just a means for us to get from point A to p...
04 August 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Autonomous car poll: Participants choose random chance over informed decision
Given a choice between crashing into a motorcyclist wearing a helmet vs. a motorcyclist who isn’t wearing one, which one should an autonomous car be programmed to crash into? What about the choice b...
21 July 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
If death by autonomous car is unavoidable, who should die? Reader poll results
Image credit: Craig Berry
Life and death decisions make interesting thought experiments. When you throw an autonomous car into the mix, things get even more interesting....
23 June 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Reader poll: Should the unlicensed be allowed to ‘drive’ an autonomous car?
Image from Wikimedia Commons
Two weeks ago we published our first reader poll in collaboration with the Open Roboethics initiative in order to find out more about what people think about autono...
13 May 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
What do people think about autonomous cars? Results from our reader poll
What do people think are the main advantages of owning an autonomous car? Do people think autonomous cars should be easily identifiable? How much money are people willing to pay for an autonomous car ...
12 May 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
