Legal Issues for Mobile Servant Robots

Eduard Fosch Villaronga; Gurvinder S. Virk

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49058-8_66

Legal Issues for Mobile Servant Robots

Eduard Fosch Villaronga, Gurvinder S. Virk

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Abstract

This paper identifies key legal issues which are emerging for Mobile Servant Robots (MSRs), a sub-type of Personal Care Robots (PCR) defined in ISO 13482. New cases are likely to be introduced in the market soon even though appropriate and specific binding legal regulations regarding MSRs are missing and several questions need to be carefully considered. The main issues of concern are the need for a concrete and holistic definition of MSR, clarification on the confusion among new emerging ISO/IEC robot categories (especially between boundaries and gaps in machinery with medical device regulations), unclear liability scenarios (avoiding harm, prospective liability, butterfly effect), defining and regulating human-robot collaborations and relationships, ethical issues (mass surveillance, post-monitoring personal data), autonomy (from the robot but also from the user perspective), isolation scenarios, etc. Despite the recent technical advances, there is still a long way ahead and further research is needed to overcome a variety of associated legal and ethical issues which are emerging

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD16)
Editors	Aleksandar Rodic, Theodor Borangiu
Publisher	Springer
Pages	605-612
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-49058-8
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-49057-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49058-8_66
Publication status	Published - 30 Jun 2017
Event	25th Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD 2016 - Belgrade, Serbia Duration: 30 Jun 2016 → 2 Jul 2016 Conference number: 16

Publication series

Name	Advances in intelligent systems and computing
Publisher	Springer
Volume	540
ISSN (Print)	2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)	2194-5365

Conference

Conference	25th Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD 2016
Abbreviated title	RAAD
Country/Territory	Serbia
City	Belgrade
Period	30/06/16 → 2/07/16

Keywords

METIS-321299
IR-103226

UN SDGs

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Fosch Villaronga, E., & Virk, G. S. (2017). Legal Issues for Mobile Servant Robots. In A. Rodic, & T. Borangiu (Eds.), Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control: Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD16) (pp. 605-612). (Advances in intelligent systems and computing; Vol. 540). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49058-8_66

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Fosch Villaronga, E & Virk, GS 2017, Legal Issues for Mobile Servant Robots. in A Rodic & T Borangiu (eds), Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control: Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD16). Advances in intelligent systems and computing, vol. 540, Springer, pp. 605-612, 25th Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD 2016, Belgrade, Serbia, 30/06/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49058-8_66

Legal Issues for Mobile Servant Robots. / Fosch Villaronga, Eduard; Virk, Gurvinder S.
Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control: Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD16). ed. / Aleksandar Rodic; Theodor Borangiu. Springer, 2017. p. 605-612 (Advances in intelligent systems and computing; Vol. 540).

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