Olivier Guilhem of Aldebaran and SoftBank Robotics will demonstrate some state-of-the-art robots and explore legal considerations and guidelines that will need to be put in place as robots become more present in our daily world. The star of the demonstration is Pepper, a humanoid companion robot that communicates in a natural, intuitive way. Pepper can […]

All of the We Robot 2016 papers are now available for download from the Program Page — look for the colorful hyperlinks. If you’re coming, or if you are planning to follow along online, you will want to read as many of the papers as you can before the event. We Robot authors do not […]

“Robots again.” Thus begins Judge Alex Kozinski’s 1997 dissent from the Ninth Circuit’s decision not to rehear the case of Wendt v. Host International en banc. “Robots” because Wendt involved an allegation by the actors who played Cliff and Norm on the television show Cheers that a bar violated their rights of publicity by creating […]

This paper looks at recent changes in the (1) regulatory; (2) privacy and data protection landscape and (3) liability areas. Examples of developments affecting the connected car / intelligent car market in 2015 include: 1 – Regulatory Issues USA California, District of Columbia, Florida, Michigan, and Nevada have laws that allow the use of the […]

Fully autonomous or “self-driving” automobiles are vehicles “which can drive themselves without human supervision or input.” Because of improvements in driving safety and efficiency, fully autonomous vehicles are likely to become an increasing presence in our physical environment in the 5–15 year time frame. An important point is that, for the first time, people will […]