1st Edition
Robots, Healthcare, and the Law Regulating Automation in Personal Care
By Eduard Fosch-Villaronga
Copyright 2020
276 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
276 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
276 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The integration of robotic systems and artificial intelligence into healthcare settings is accelerating. As these technological developments interact socially with children, the elderly, or the disabled, they may raise concerns besides mere physical safety; concerns that include data protection, inappropriate use of emotions, invasion of privacy, autonomy suppression, decrease in human... Read more
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
First foreword
Second foreword
Introduction
1 From forced labour to robots
2 Automation in healthcare
3 Robot Impact Assessment
4 Personal care robots: context and robot type
5 Robot and AI legal framework
6 Comprehensive safety
7 Consumer robotics
8 Responsibility, liability, and accountability
9 Privacy and data protection
10 Dignity and broader impacts
Conclusions
Reflections
Appendix: conducting a Robot Impact Assessment
Index
Biography
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Ph.D., LL.M., M.A., LL.B., is currently Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Researcher at the eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University in The Netherlands.
