Robotic systems are frequently employed to solve complex tasks in human environments. However, our ability to engineer capable robots has outstripped our ability to understand, predict, and mitigate potential ethical consequences of their deployment. As businesses and governments consider robotic solutions to construction, logistics, security, surveillance, and other challenges, the importance of ensuring and verifying that the robotic systems we develop behave in an ethical manner increases. Shared communication, methods for evaluation, technical innovation, and a clearer inventory of current and future shortcomings with respect to ethical robotic systems are of central importance, alongside better understanding of complications faced during deployments as robots live and interact with humans, common applications of different ethical robotic tools in different scenarios, and identification of common oversight or implicit assumptions in practice. The current field of robot ethics faces many unique challenges in communication, scoping, and problem selection, in addition to the more easily recognizable engineering challenges of building and evaluating ethical robotic systems. In light of these challenges, we welcome papers on topics including but not limited to the following areas:
Contact: ers.workshop@gmail.com
We encourage a range of submission types to facilitate broad participation:
Details: Please use the IROS latex format. All papers may have an unlimited number of references. The workshop is non-archival. We encourage submission of previously published work, or the simultaneous submission of work to ERS and other venues if authors believe their work is relevant.
The Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) at UC Berkeley, the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI), and the IEEE Technical Committee on Verification of Autonomous Systems are sponsoring the ERS 2024 Best Paper Award. The best paper will receive $300 and the runner-up will receive $200 along with a certificate at the end of the workshop.
Name | Rafael Cardoso | Sandhya Saisubramanian | Qin Zhu | Emily Collins | Boyoung Kim | Daniella DiPaola | Meir Friedenberg | Matthew Studley | Karolina Zawieska |
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