Towards ethical framework for personal care robots: Review and reflection

Nazanin Mansouri*, Khaled Goher

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In recent decades, robots have been used noticeably at various industries. Autonomous robots have been embedded in human lives especially in elderly and disabled lives. Elderly population is growing worldwide significantly; therefore there is an increased need of personal care robots to enhance mobility and to promote independence. A great number of aging and disabled hold appeals for using robots in daily routine tasks as well as for various healthcare matters. It is essential to follow a proper framework in ethics of robot design to fulfill individual needs, whilst considering potential harmful effects of robots. This paper primarily focuses on the existing issues in robot ethics including general ethics theories and ethics frameworks for robots. Consequentialism ethics will be recommended to be applied in robot ethics frameworks.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)152-162
Number of pages11
JournalAsian Social Science
Volume12
Issue number10
Early online date19 Sept 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Sept 2016

Bibliographical note

Copyright (c) 2016 Nazanin Mansouri. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords

  • Consequential ethics
  • Deontology ethics
  • Robot ethics
  • Robot ethics framework
  • Virtue ethics

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