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Axiological Elements to Consider Ethics Applied to Robotics

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The development achieved by scientific and technical knowledge applied to robotics has long posed important ethical questions. In this paper are addressed some of these old and new questions that creates the human-robot relationship and its social dimension. This reflection is applied to the military use of drones, at a time in which the ethical and legal questions accompany some of these uses. As well as the plurality of evaluations determines the design and use of robots, the axiology is used to reflect the ethical problems of robotics.

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  1. Faculty of Law, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Antonio Madrid Pérez

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  1. CAR UPM-CSIC, State Agency National Research Council (CSIC), Arganda del Rey, Spain

    Manuel A. Armada

  2. University Technical of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

    Alberto Sanfeliu

  3. University Polytechnic of Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain

    Manuel Ferre

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Pérez, A.M. (2014). Axiological Elements to Consider Ethics Applied to Robotics. In: Armada, M., Sanfeliu, A., Ferre, M. (eds) ROBOT2013: First Iberian Robotics Conference. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 252. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03413-3_48

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