This project examined the applied ethics of robots during the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on the four major ethical principles (privacy, safety and security, fairness and non-discrimination, and transparency and explainability), this project mapped potential ethical issues that emerge from the deployment of robots and other autonomous systems in crisis situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The project also analyzed ethical issues in the robotics response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and provided insights for a comparative framework of urgency ethics in robotics.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Andigani, Razan

Subject

• Well-Being
• Culture
• Computing
• Inclusion
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-081920-112502

关键词

• Humanistic Studies of Technology

Advisor

• Telliel, Yunus Dogan
• Calli, Berk

Year

• 2020

Date created

• 2020-08-19

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright