Carlotta Rigotti

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Carlotta Rigotti is a legal and interdisciplinary scholar whose work sits at the cutting edge of robotics law, feminist theory, and emerging technology regulation. She has established herself as a distinctive voice in the largely underexplored field of sex robot research, bringing rigorous legal reasoning to a domain that has historically been dominated by philosophical and sociological perspectives. Her most cited work, "How to Apply Asimov's First Law to Sex Robots" (2020, 7 citations), bridges science fiction frameworks and fundamental rights analysis to examine the legal tensions surrounding sex robot manufacturing and use. Complementing this, her feminist analysis — "Guardare i sex robots attraverso le lenti femministe" (2020, 4 citations) — situates the robotic revolution within decades of feminist scholarship on gender and technology, filling a notable gap in that literature. Her 2025 book, *The Regulation of Sex Robots*, represents her most ambitious contribution, proposing a comprehensive regulatory framework for AI-powered, human-like machines and their complex ethical and legal implications. Rigotti's scholarship is particularly valuable for students navigating the intersection of law, gender studies, and artificial intelligence, offering some of the field's first systematic legal thinking on an increasingly urgent technological reality.