Abstract
A new study on Robotics - Androids is now available. According to news reporting originating from Rome, Italy, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “One of the most challenging goals in social robotics is implementing emotional skills. Making robots capable of expressing and deciphering emotions is considered crucial for allowing humans to socially interact with them.” Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the Biomedical University of Rome, “In addition to presenting technical challenges, the implementation of artificial emotions in artificial systems raises intriguing ethical issues. In this paper, moving from the case study of a human android, we present a relational perspective on human-robot interaction, claiming that, since robots are material objects not endowed with subjectivity, only an asymmetrical relationship can be established between robots and humans. Based on this claim, we deal with some of the most relevant issues in roboethics, such as transparency, trust, and authenticity.” According to the news editors, the research concluded: “We conclude suggesting that a machinecentered approach to ethics should be abandoned in favor of a relational approach, which revalues the centrality of human being in the Human-Robot Interaction.”
NETL
NSTL
Springer Nature