How Good Robots Will Enhance Human Life,

Abstract

The authors of this chapter, Kevin Warwick (KW), Huma Shah (HS), Anton Vedder (AV), Pericle Salvini (PS), and Elettra Stradella (ES) are research partners in a European Consortium entitled RoboLaw. The aim of their research is to investigate the ways in which emerging technologies in the fi eld of (bio-) robotics (e.g., bionics, neural interfaces, and nanotechnologies) have a bearing on the content, meaning, and setting of the law. However, this necessarily involves both the philosophical and technological study of robots and what it means for the robots to exist as good and moral entities, and how they will enhance their human compatriots.