Articles
Robot ethics: Mapping the issues for a mechanized world (with Patrick Lin and Keith Abney), Artificial Intelligence (2011)
As with other emerging technologies, advanced robotics brings with it new ethical and policy challenges....
Altruistic Task Allocation despite Unbalanced Relationships within Multi-Robot Communities (with Ryan Morton and Christopher M. Clark), Proceedings of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)/Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ) International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, MO (2009)
Typical Multi-Robot Systems consist of robots cooperating to maximize global fitness functions. However, in some...
Robots in War: Issues of Risk and Ethics (with Patrick Lin and Keith Abney), Ethics and Robotics (2009)
War robots clearly hold tremendous advantages-from saving the lives of our own soldiers, to safely...
Autonomous Military Robotics: Risk, Ethics, and Design (with Patrick Lin and Keith Abney), Philosophy (2008)
Altruistic Relationships for Optimizing Task Fulfillment in Robot Communities (with Christopher M. Clark and Ryan Morton), Distributed Autonomous Robot Systems 8 (2008)
This paper introduces the concept of a multi-robot community in which multiple robots must fulfill...