Robot ethics : the ethical and social implications of robotics / edited by Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, and George A. Bekey.

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012], ©2012.

x, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Introduction to robot ethics / Patrick Lin -- Current topics in robotics : technology and ethics / George A. Bekey -- Robotics, ethical theory, and metaethics : a guide for the perplexed / Keith Abney -- Moral machines : contradictions in terms or abdication of human responsibility? / Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach -- Compassionate AI and selfless robots : a Buddhist approach / James Hughes -- The divine-command approach to robot ethics / Selmer Bringsjord and Joshua Taylor -- Killing made easy : from joysticks to politics / Noel Sharkey -- Robotic warfare : some challenges in moving from noncivilian to civilian theaters / Marcello Guarini and Paul Bello -- Responsibility for military robots / Gert-Jan Lokhorst and Jeroen van den Hoven -- Contemporary governance architecture regarding robotics technologies : an assessment / Richard M. O'Meara -- A body to kick but still no soul to damn : legal perspectives on robotics / Peter M. Asaro -- Robots and privacy / M. Ryan Calo -- The inherent dangers of unidirectional emotional bonds between humans and social robots / Matthias Scheutz -- The ethics of robot prostitutes / David Levy -- Do you want a robot lover? : the ethics of caring technologies / Blay Whitby -- Robot caregiver : ethical issues across the human lifespan / Jason Borenstein and Yvette Pearson -- The rights and wrongs of robot care / Noel Sharkey and Amanda Sharkey -- Designing people to serve / Steve Petersen -- Can machines be people? : reflections on the Turing triage test / Rob Sparrow -- Robots with biological brains / Kevin Warwick -- Moral machines and the threat of ethical nihilism / Anthony F. Beavers -- Roboethics : the applied ethics for a new science / Gianmarco Veruggio and Keith Abney.

Includes bibliographical references and index.