Yueh-Hsuan Weng

Cloud Regulation: Toward a Legal Framework from Social System Design Perspective

Yueh-Hsuan Weng — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:59:26 PST

The Open-Texture Risk for the Human-Robot Co-Existence Society: A Review of Ryan Calo’s OPEN ROBOTICS

Yueh-Hsuan Weng — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:09:44 PST

Robot Technology will become a transformative industrial trend following Personal Computer and Internet, and with its technology development, it will be presented as “Emerging Into Human’s Life” as well as “Integrating Into the Human’s Body”. In other words, the Human-Robot Co-Existence Society will be a promising future. The article “Open Robotics” tries to solve the emerging legal problem that the United States will soon face when its next generation robots industry develops at the initial stage. The author Ryan Calo argues that in order to fulfill many promises for the consumers, the Personal Robots platform have to adopt a relatively open attitude towards technical innovation of the robotics industry. However, the achievement of technical openness for the robot industry relies on the law.

The Legal Challenges of Networked Robotics: From The Safety Intelligence Perspective

Yueh-Hsuan Weng et al. — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:29:41 PDT

Future robots will enhance their intelligence and actions in an unstructured environment due to their “networked” feature. Current robot designs have difficulty in understanding unstructured environments due to the inherent diversity and unpredictability of phenomena in the real world. However, new developments such as ubiquitous computing, cloud computing, the net of things and next-generation internet technologies will make it easier for networked robots to obtain structured information about their physical environment. The formation of cloud-enabled robotics by advanced technology will be tightly integrated into the virtual and real world, and this will strengthen the impact of cyberspace to the real world. Although these developments may help reduce Open-Texture Risk from the networked robots, risk will be transferred from the physical world into the virtual world. In this paper, we will try to address some of the resulting legal implications. This paper is divided into four parts, the first part defines what is meant by cloud-enabled robotics; the second part analyzes the Open-Texture Risk derived from virtual and real world with autonomous behaviors by intelligent robots; the third part explains the dispute of legal issues in future technology of cloud-enabled robotics; the final part analyzes the Safety Intelligence of cloud-enabled robotics in a long-term perspective, and the theoretical control framework that we propose in solving Open-Texture Risk in cyberspace.

Beyond Robot Ethics: On a Legislative Consortium for Social Robotics

Yueh-Hsuan Weng — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:01:43 PDT

As robots are increasingly integrated into human society, associated problems will resemble or merge with those in other fields, we can refer to this as “Robot Sociability Problem”. In this paper, the author analyzes the dynamic relationship among Robot Ethics, Robotics, and Robot Law at the beginning, and then proposes a “Practical Robots” attitude for solving Robot Sociability Problem. Due to “Practical Robots” attitude is based on legal regulations, therefore the author posits that a functional platform like “Legislative Consortium for Social Robotics” is crucial at the initial stage for social robotics development. In the conclusion, the author believes that Legislative Consortium for Social Robotics will be a useful approach for solving robot sociability problem, especially those emerging global legal issues which are related to autonomous robots.

Networked Robots: A Brief Look at Possible Legal Implications

Yueh-Hsuan Weng — Mon, 09 May 2011 08:51:11 PDT

Current robot designs have difficulty understanding unstructured environments due to the inherent diversity and unpredictability of phenomena in the real world. However, new developments like ubiquitous computing, cloud computing, the Net of Things and next-generation internet technologies should make it easier for networked robots to get structured information about their physical environment. Although these developments may help reduce open texture risk, in fact, risk will be transferred from the physical world into the virtual world. In this paper, the author will try to address some of the resulting legal implications.

Beyond Robot Ethics: On a Legislative Consortium for Social Robotics

Yueh-Hsuan Weng — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:00:32 PDT

Waseda Robot Monogatari

Yueh-Hsuan Weng — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:59:02 PST

A presentation for Waseda Robotics Research Group. CIE, Waseda University, Tokyo.

Robo-Ethicists Want to Revamp Asimov’s 3 Laws

Priya Ganapati — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:01:32 PST

Living Safely with Robots, Beyond Asimov's Laws

Lisa Zyga — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:55:58 PST

Toward the Human-Robot Co-Existence Society: On Legislative Consortium for Social Robotics

Yueh-Hsuan Weng — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:17:33 PDT

Emerging trends associated with Next Generation Robots point to the day when robots will enter human society in large numbers, however the co-exist scenario between human and robots is not necessarily promising. The success of the coming Human-Robot Co-Existence Society will depend a great deal on how well robotists, manufacturers, and legislators deal with Robot Sociability Problems. The author will address these issues from a legal perspective, and argue in favor of organizing a Legislative Consortium for Social Robotics as an international interdisciplinary platform for purposes of analyzing robot sociability issues and establishing core values for domestic legislators to abide by.

Legislative Consortium for Social Robotics

Yueh-Hsuan Weng — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:19:39 PDT

The Legislative Consortium for Social Robotics is an international interdisciplinary platform for addressing robot sociability issues affecting the impending human-robot co-existence society.

The Dynamic Analysis of Patent Tagging Networks

Yueh-Hsuan Weng — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:19:43 PST

Complexity science attempts to explain structures and rules governing systems which take organized but unpredictable form. Two important areas of research include network structure and dynamics. Regardless of whether the fundamental elements under examination are biological, social or physical in manner, they can often be understood in network form. Common examples include disease epidemics, electric power transmission, ecological food chains, academic citation networks, and of course the internet, all of which are complex networks somewhere between random and ordered on the complexity scale. Following up on recent network theory research, the author will systematically analyze the dynamics of complex legal networks using social network analysis with a special focus on patent documents. Patent citation networks are generated by unidirectional citations among patents. Analyzing these links typically requires computerized natural language processing (NLP). However, the use of NLP in analyzing patent networks has several limitations. The author has therefore adopted a new approach using the connecting relationships between technical codes and patents under the Multi-Dimensional Patent Classification System used by the Japan Patent Office (JPO). This system is used to construct patent tagging networks, which can then be subjected to three further analyses examining the fundamental characters of the tagging networks, the dynamics of patent unit networks and the dynamics of technical code unit networks. The author will first explain the construction of a patent tagging network before moving on to discuss applications, including dynamic network analysis.

Safety Intelligence and Legal Machine Language: Do we need the Three Laws of Robotics?

Yueh-Hsuan Weng et al. — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:36:23 PST

The aim of this chapter is to offer a fundamental framework for a legal system focused on safety issues involving New Generation Robots (NGRs). This framework is offered in response to the lack of clarity regarding robot safety guidelines despite the impending development and release of tens of thousands of robots into workplaces and homes around the world. The authors propose a Safety Intelligence (SI) concept for NGRs that addresses issues tied to open texture risk for robots that will have a relatively high level of autonomy in interactions with humans. We express doubt that Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics model will be a suitable foundation for creating an artificial moral agency for ensuring robot safety. Instead, we will offer an alternative Legal Machine Language (LML) model that utilizes non-verbal information from robot sensors and actuators to protect both humans and robots. To implement an LML model, robotists must design a biomorphic nerve reflex system, and legal scholars must define safety content for robots having a certain degree of “self-awareness

The Legal Crisis of Next Generation Robots: On Safety Intelligence

Yueh-Hsuan Weng et al. — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:36:07 PST

Robot intelligence architecture has advanced from action intelligence to autonomous intelligence, whereby robots can adapt to complex environments and interact with humans. This technology, considered central to next generation robots (NGRs), will become increasingly visible in many human service scenarios in the next two decades. Accordingly, there is an emerging need to predict and address intertwined technological and legal issues that will arise once NGRs become more commonplace. Safety issues will be of particular interest from a legal viewpoint. As robots become more capable of autonomous behavior, regulations associated with industrial robots will no longer be effective. In this paper we will discuss issues associated with autonomous robot behavior regulations associated with the concept of safety intelligence (SI). We believe the SI concept (one of several robot sociability problems) is crucial to the development of “robot law” that will accompany the establishment of a society in which humans and robots co-exist.

Toward the Human-Robot Co-Existence Society: On Safety Intelligence for Next Generation Robots

Yueh-Hsuan Weng et al. — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:47:09 PST

Technocrats from many developed countries, especially Japan and South Korea, are preparing for the human-robot co-existence society that they believe will emerge by 2030. Regulators are assuming that within the next two decades, robots will be capable of adapting to complex, unstructured environments and interacting with humans to assist with the performance of daily life tasks. Unlike heavily regulated industrial robots that toil in isolated settings, Next Generation Robots will have relative autonomy, which raises a number of safety issues that are the focus of this article. Our purpose is to describe a framework for a legal system focused on Next Generation Robots safety issues, including a Safety Intelligence concept that addresses robot Open-Texture Risk. We express doubt that a model based on Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics can ever be a suitable foundation for creating an artificial moral agency ensuring robot safety. Finally, we make predictions about the most significant Next Generation Robots safety issues that will arise as the human-robot co-existence society emerges.