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Robotics is becoming a transformative technology. We Robot 2014 examines how the increasing sophistication of robots and their widespread deployment everywhere from the home, to hospitals, to public spaces, and even to the battlefield disrupts existing legal regimes or requires rethinking of various policy issues.
We Robot’s theme this year is "Risks & Opportunities," a topic at the intersection of law, policy, and technology of robotics. We Robot 2014 will be held at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida on April 4-5, 2014. Now in its third year, the event returns to the University of Miami School of Law after being hosted by Stanford Law School last April. The conference and registration web site is at http://robots.law.miami.edu/2014.
If you are on the front lines of robot theory, design, or development, we hope to see you at We Robot. Come join the conversations between the people designing, building, and deploying robots, and the people who design or influence the legal and social structures in which robots will operate.
Among the topics to be covered at the 2014 edition of the conference are:
- · Automated law enforcement: Feasible? Desirable?
- · Does robotic email surveillance violate your privacy?
- · Legal and ethical issues arising from human-robot interaction: Will people like their robots too much?
- · Mechanical jurisprudence: What if the Chief Justice was really a robot?
- · The drones are coming – what rules should govern the development and operation of autonomous aerial robots?
We Robot also will have demonstrations of telemedicine and of automated stock trading agents.