Presentation
Ethical Design and Standardization for Robot Governance
IEEE ICRA 2024 The 2nd Workshop on NeuroDesign in Human-Robot Interaction
(2024)
Abstract
In recent years, there has been a rapid rise of innovations in robotics around the globe. This has been largely driven by the fact of labor force shortage in the lower-level, dirty, dull, dangerous and repetitive/tiring jobs, such as manufacturing, agriculture, food industry, infrastructure constructions, and/or autonomous vehicles, etc., as where the robots can provide faster, precise, safer and reliable task performance, working for long hours without taking breaks, compared to our human counterparts. During the past two years, the world-wide pandemic even pushes the demands further of using robots to replace the frontline healthcare workers, nurses and physicians to avoid body contacts, mitigating dangerous virus infections and transmissions. All these great examples contributed to the vast innovations of robot automation, which excels when the robot can work alone without human intervention, separated from our living environment without worrying too much about harming the people nearby. However, when the robots come to our homes and the hospitals, or in the environment where it needs tight human-robot interactions (HRI), the safety issues and uncertain human factors make the presumed technical assumptions falter, and the developmental processes and the business models fail. Good representative examples can be found in the recent shutdowns of several well-known startup companies, including Rethink Robotics, Jibo and Anki, of which they were all developing the forefront human-robot interaction solutions.
We surmise that HRIinnovation and commercialization of HRI products present unique challenges that are typically not encountered in other industries. With the constant increasing demands of using HRI technologies to compensate, augment and empower our human capabilities, we need to seriously address the fundamental flaws when developing HRI technologies, and translate the traditional “ivory tower” lab research into the real-world applications and the consumer products more fluently. In our competition, we intend to find the best projects that exemplify the NeuroDesign innovation principles to identify, invent and implement the developed HRI technologies, which could provide us a practical guidance to quickly bring Human-Robot Interaction lab research to solve the real-world problems.
Disciplines
- Engineering and
- Law
Publication Date
Spring May 17, 2024
Citation Information
Yueh-Hsuan Weng. "Ethical Design and Standardization for Robot Governance" IEEE ICRA 2024 The 2nd Workshop on NeuroDesign in Human-Robot Interaction (2024) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/weng_yueh_hsuan/174/