Introduction: Roboethics as an Emerging Field of Ethics of Technology

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Kohji Ishihara's work on roboethics including this introduction is supported by JSPS, KAKENHI (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research), No. 21520004 (K. Ishihara, PI), and Global COE Program The University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy (UTCP) from MEXT, Japan.

Notes

1. For example, “the nanoethics group” was founded in 2003 based at California Polytechnic State University. See their website at http://www.nanoethics.org/ (last accessed August 24, 2010.)

2. S. Tachi (2002) develops an interesting argument about the relation between the social system and the “safety intelligence” of social robots (although he does not use the term “social robots”). He also refers to “robot ethics.”