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Balance of privacy and control key to acceptance of robot bath assistants
While the past decade has witnessed the emergence of various prototypes and research projects involving bathing robots, the public acceptance of the concept seems to largely depend on one socially sen...
15 October 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
What would you want your robot home to do for you?
The devices that we interact with in our everyday lives are getting 'smarter': we wear smart watches, carry smart phones, and many of us are now living in smart homes that are equipped with intellige...
14 October 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
Reader poll: How do you feel about “Swarms of Autonomous Cars”?
A few of days ago, WIRED and Robohub covered a story about “Largest Swarm of Robots” and how self-organizing algorithms can be used by robots to form certain shapes. This inspired us to see wha...
19 August 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
Reader poll: Should an autonomous car be able to drive w/o a human passenger?
A couple of months ago, we asked our readers whether three different unlicensed groups of individuals should be able to ride in autonomous cars alone. The individuals were: a child under the legal dr...
05 August 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Readers split on whether they will miss driving their non-autonomous car
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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
When fully autonomous cars are the norm, will you miss driving?
A few weeks ago, one of our readers, Javier Lopez, submitted a number of questions to the ORi team. He brought up many interesting points, and we won’t attempt to cover them all in one poll. But on...
22 July 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
Reader poll: How should an autonomous car optimize crashes?
Photo by Roland Dobbins, Wikimedia
A couple of months ago Dr. Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, wrote an article on autonomous...
08 July 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
How do you want to interface with your autonomous car? Poll results
Those of you who watched the 80’s TV series “Knight Rider” might remember the dialogue between Michael Knight and its super-car, KITT. Some of you might be more familiar with scenes between “J...
07 July 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
My (autonomous) car, my safety: Results from our reader poll
You are travelling along a single lane mountain road in an autonomous car that is approaching a narrow tunnel. You are the only passenger of the car....
30 June 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Reader poll: How would you like to interface with your autonomous car?
We interact with gadgets and devices everyday … some have blinking lights, some play sounds, and some can even decipher our voice commands. When it comes to interfacing with a device as exciting an...
24 June 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: If a death by an autonomous car is unavoidable, who should die?
Image source: Karora via Wikipedia.
There may be times when an accident or a death is unavoidable while an autonomous car is controlling the wheel.
What should an autonomous car do when such ...
10 June 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed? Results from our reader poll
Our previous poll, which asked (among other questions) whether kids should be allowed to ride in autonomous vehicles by themselves, revealed that responsibility is a key issue for most people. Are we ...
09 June 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Reader Poll: Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed?
We conducted two polls last month in collaboration with the Open Roboethics initiative to get a sense of what people think about autonomous cars. Our polls started some interesting discussions arou...
27 May 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Kids with wheels: Should the unlicensed be allowed to ‘drive’ autonomous cars?
Share your opinion and take our next reader poll: Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed?Reader poll results: Earlier this month, when we asked people about your general thoughts on autonomous c...
26 May 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
Reader poll: What do you think about autonomous cars?
Today we drive our cars. In the future they’ll do the driving.
Autonomous cars are no longer a far-off futuristic dream, but something that we can expect to see on the road within the next dec...
29 April 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
