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RoboLaw: Regulating robotics (video)
What legal rights should a robot have? In this video, Polo Sant’Anna Valdera, one of the leading research centres for robotics, raises this important question. Innovation raises new legal and ethical issues. The European Parliament wants to address these issues so robotics continues to flourish in 2017.
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Kassie Perlongo
Kassie is the Managing Editor at Robohub.
Kassie Perlongo
Kassie is the Managing Editor at Robohub.
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