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Robotics and Humanity

Robots are widely used to assist humans in everyday tasks. The International Federation of Robotics and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe define a service robot as a robot that performs useful tasks for humans or equipment, excluding industrial automation. Germany was an early developer of service robots through projects like DESIRE, which aimed to develop key functions and a common technology platform for tasks like cleaning kitchen tables and filling dishwashers. While robots can ease human workloads and make life more efficient, their development also raises safety and autonomy issues that must be addressed.

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Robotics and Humanity

Robots are widely used to assist humans in everyday tasks. The International Federation of Robotics and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe define a service robot as a robot that performs useful tasks for humans or equipment, excluding industrial automation. Germany was an early developer of service robots through projects like DESIRE, which aimed to develop key functions and a common technology platform for tasks like cleaning kitchen tables and filling dishwashers. While robots can ease human workloads and make life more efficient, their development also raises safety and autonomy issues that must be addressed.

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Robotics and Humanity

 Another great product of the innovative minds of the people is the robot.
 Robots are now widely used. Ex. There are so called service robots. These
particular robots do specific tasks but focus mainly in assisting their masters in
their everyday tasks.
 The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) and United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe (UNECE) made it their task to formulate a working
definition for service robots.

A preliminary extract of the relevant definition is (IFR, 2012):


 A robot is an actuated mechanism programmable in two or more axes with a
degree of autonomy, moving within its environment, to perform intended tasks.
 A service robot is a robot that performs useful tasks for humans or equipment
excluding industrial automation application.
 A personal service robot or a service robot for personal use is a robot used for a
noncommercial task, usually by laypersons. Ex. Domestic servant robot,
automated wheelchair, personal mobility assist robot, and pet exercising robot.
 A professional service robot or a service robot for professional use is a robot used
for a commercial task, usually operated by a properly trained operator.
Ex. Cleaning robot for public places, delivery robot in offices or hospitals, fire
fighting robot, rehabilitation robot, and surgery robot in hospitals.
 Germany was one of the first countries to develop service robots.
 As part of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s “Service
Robotics Innovation Lead Initiative,” it sponsored a collaborative project called
DESIRE (Deutsche Servicerobotik Initiative-Germany Service Robotics
Initiative) which was launced on October 1, 2005.
 DESIRE has the following individual objectives:
• To achieve a technological edge toward attaining key functions and
components that are suited for everyday use
• To create a reference architecture for mobile manipulation
• To promote the convergence of technologies through integration into a
common technology platform
• To conduct pre-competition research and development activities for the new
 Some of the expected work to be performed by DESIRE are the ff:
• “lear up the kitchen table”
• “Fill the dishwasher”
• “Clear up this room”

 Roles Played by Robotics


• Used to ease the workload of mankind
• To make life more efficient and less stressful
• To entertain people
 Just like people living in the society, robots also have their own set of rules and
characteristics that define what a good robot is.
 These laws were formulated by Isaac Asimov back in the 1940’s, when he was
thinking of the ethical consequences of robots.
 These are the following (Standford, n.d.):
• Law One: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow
a human being to come to harm.
• Law Two: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except
where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
• Law Three: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection
does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Ethical Dilemma/s Faced by Robotics


• Safety
• Emotional component
• Partial autonomy includes active human-robot interaction
• Full autonomy excludes active human-robot interaction

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