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Title Robot law / edited by Ryan Calo, A. Michael Froomkin, Ian Kerr
Published Cheltenham, UK ; $a Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 402 pages) : illustrations
Contents How should the law think about robots? / Neil M. Richards and William D. Smart -- Allocating the risk of physical injury from "sophisticated robots" : efficiency, fairness, and innovation / F. Patrick Hubbard -- The application of traditional tort theory to embodied machine intelligence / Curtis E.A. Karnow -- Lawyers and engineers should speak the same robot language / Bryant Walker Smith -- Delegation, relinquishment and responsibility : the prospect of expert robots / Jason Millar and Ian Kerr -- The open roboethics initiative and the elevator-riding robot / AJung Moon, Ergun Calisgan, Camilla Bassani, Fausto Ferreira, Fiorella Operto and Gianmarco Veruggio -- The application of a 'sufficiently and selectively open license' to limit liability and ethical concerns associated with open robotics / Diana Marina Cooper -- The roboticization of consent / Sinziana M. Gutiu -- Extending legal protection to social robots : the effects of anthropomorphism, empathy, and violent behavior towards robotic objects / Kate Darling -- Confronting automated law enforcement / Lisa A. Shay, Woodrow Hartzog, John Nelson, Dominic Larkin and Gregory Conti -- Do robots dream of electric laws? : an experiment in the law as algorithm / Lisa A. Shay, Woodrow Hartzog, John Nelson and Gregory Conti -- Examining the constitutionality of robot-enhanced interrogation / Kristen Thomasen -- Asleep at the switch? : how killer robots become a force multiplier of military necessity / Ian Kerr and Katie Szilagyi -- Jus nascendi, robotic weapons and the martens clause / Peter Asaro
Summary "Robot Law brings together exemplary research on robotics law and policy - an area of scholarly inquiry responding to transformative technology. Expert scholars from law, engineering, computer science and philosophy provide original contributions on topics such as liability, warfare, domestic law enforcement, personhood, and other cutting-edge issues in robotics and artificial intelligence. Together the chapters form a field-defining look at an area of law that will only grow in importance."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Elgaronline, viewed on June 7, 2018)
Subject Robotics -- Law and legislation.
Automation -- Law and legislation.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General)
Robots.
Robotique.
Aspects juridiques.
Automation -- Law and legislation
Robotics -- Law and legislation
Form Electronic book
Author Calo, M. Ryan, editor.
Froomkin, Michael, 1960- editor.
Kerr, Ian (Ian R.), editor.
ISBN 9781783476732
1783476737