As students, we’re surrounded by the ever-growing use of technology. From social media platforms to the digitization of healthcare, we are constantly seeing the adoption of AI, without fully knowing or understanding how they impact our lives. AI has always […]| Open Roboethics Institute
ICRA 2022 just got started and this year the second Roboethics Competition will take place as part of this conference! This year, the competition received five submissions representing participants from Canada, United Kingdom, and the United States, demonstrating an increase […]| Open Roboethics Institute
On August 8th, 2021, a team of four graduate students from the University of Toronto presented their ethical design in the world’s first ever roboethics competition, the RO-MAN 2021 Roboethics to Design & Development Competition. During the competition, design teams […]| Open Roboethics Institute
You can find all the necessary data files from the public opinion poll hosted by ORI and KOTI in 2020. To access the full survey click here. To access the Survey Monkey report click here. To access the folder with […]| Open Roboethics Institute
So what does it mean for a robot to act ethically within a home environment? Researchers have been thinking about this question from different perspectives for the past couple of decades. Some look at the question from a labor perspective […]| Open Roboethics Institute
In 1984, Heathkit presented HERO Jr. as the first robot that could be used in households to perform a variety of tasks, such as guarding people’s homes, setting reminders, and even playing games. Following this development, many companies launched affordable […]| Open Roboethics Institute
Download the Foresight into AI Ethics Toolkit for Healthcare!| Open Roboethics Institute
Autonomy, Privacy and Training Open Roboethics Institute has been collaborating with the Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) since 2017 to understand the public’s perspective towards the implementation of semi-autonomous cars. ORI and KOTI collaborated on developing the research agenda and researchers […]| Open Roboethics Institute
ORI is cooking up new projects and contents to share with you later this year. One of the projects that are keeping us busy and excited is an AI ethics assessment toolkit. It will be a free toolkit that outlines […]| Open Roboethics Institute
On Friday November 13th, AJung Moon from the Open Roboethics initiative delivered a statement at the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Meeting of States Parties. So what was this meeting about? And why was ORi there? The CCW actually […]| openroboethics.org
