With robots becoming more and more sophisticated—Robodinho anyone?—scientists are working to come up with a code of ethics to be programmed into robots. This has shades of Asimov’s Three Laws, and ...

Ethical development in robotics and artificial intelligence is often debated, and tends to centre on the vital need to avoid automating existing societal biases when it comes to ethnicity, gender, ...

When Dallas police officers told their chief, David Brown, that they planned to attach an explosive to a remote-controlled robot and kill the man who they believed had fatally shot five officers on ...

The 2004 sci-fi action flick I, Robot (streaming now on Peacock) features Will Smith as Del Spooner, a Chicago detective in the year 2035. It’s a loose adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s robot stories, ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KTVU) - Just like a gun, a computer can do good or evil depending on the user. But consider an artificially intelligent gun or computer that can think for itself. Thursday, we looked ...

Susan Anderson and her research partner, husband Michael Anderson of the University of Hartford, at first seem to have little in common when it comes to their academic lives: she's a philosopher, he's ...

We’ve all seen apocalyptic headlines about robots and AI destroying jobs, and videos of supposedly sinister machines learning to walk, run, and jump (sometimes unsuccessfully). The prevailing ...

Sara Wenger. Photo provided by Sara Wenger/courtesy Virginia Tech. Is it possible to have a loving relationship with a robot? Is a machine capable of giving consent? And how do gender dynamics play ...

An autonomous security robot and a robo-dog will be joining the New York Police Department, authorities announced. These technologies may make people grow wary. Philosophy professor Ryan Jenkins ...

Ahmed Amer is an associate professor of computer engineering at Santa Clara University and a Faculty Scholar of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. Note: Some time ago, Amazon ...

When I went on tour for my book On Belonging, I was often asked a simple but profoundly important question: “What can I do to build belonging in my community?” The answer, I’d explain, isn’t ...

Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are expected to play a key role in nursing practice in the future. In this regard, researchers from Japan ask whether intelligent machines can replace humans as ...