Asimov’s Three Laws Of Robotics Get A 21st Century Health Care Update

Friday, August 15, 2014 - 22:40 in Mathematics & Economics

Isaac Asimov's Three Laws Of Robotics, from the story "Runaround" in 1942, are arguably the most famous example of fictional ethics becoming so fundamental they are adopted spontaneously by everyone in an industry that hadn't even been created yet.(1)Now that robots are widely used in caring for older people, as well as in military and industrial applications, scholars want to give them a 21st century update. read more

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