Paper Info
Title
European regulatory framework for person carrier robots
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to establish the grounds for a future regulatory framework for Person Carrier Robots, which includes legal and ethical aspects. Current industrial standards focus on physical human–robot interaction, i.e. on the prevention of harm. Current robot technology nonetheless challenges other aspects in the legal domain. The main issues comprise privacy, data protection, liability, autonomy, dignity, and ethics. The paper first discusses the need to take into account other interdisciplinary aspects of robot technology to offer complete legal coverage to citizens. As the European Union starts using impact assessment methodology for completing new technologies regulations, a new methodology based on it to approach the insertion of personal care robots will be discussed. Then, after framing the discussion with a use case, analysis of the involved legal challenges will be conducted. Some concrete scenarios will contribute to easing the explanatory analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.clsr.2017.03.018
Computer Law & Security Review
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Personal care robots,Person carrier robots,Legal ethical societal issues (ELS),Care robot impact assessment,Regulatory framework,Human robot interaction (HRI)
Journal
33
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0267-3649
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
17
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eduard Fosch Villaronga1229.03
Antoni Roig281.96