Journal
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERONTOLOGIE UND GERIATRIE
Volume 49, Issue 4, Pages 303-307Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00391-016-1066-5
Keywords
Robotics; Ethics; Vulnerable persons; Informed consent; Assistive technology
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- European Community [600623]
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Socially assistive robots are increasingly discussed as solutions in care and domestic use for the support of senior adults; however, this raises ethical questions which hitherto have not been considered or were not predictable. The most important questions are those of privacy and data protection, safety and responsibility as well as involvement of vulnerable persons and deception. Consequently, the ethical principles of nonmaleficence, beneficence, autonomy and fairness should be transposed to robotics. Clear answers and solutions are not yet available for every ethical challenge in robotics; however, the development of ethical guidelines for deployment of robots and research in the field of social service robots (SSR) are essential steps in order to embed ethics into dealing with socially assistive robots. This article provides some practical suggestions on this issue from a robotics project.
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