Federica Lucivero
King's College London, European Commission, University of London
Papers
7
Total Citations
281
H-Index
6
About
Federica Lucivero is a prominent scholar whose work sits at the intersection of technology ethics, law, and policy, with a particular focus on robotics, artificial intelligence, and emerging neurotechnologies. She has made significant contributions to the field of responsible innovation by examining how legal and ethical frameworks must evolve to keep pace with rapidly advancing technologies. Her most influential work, "Regulatory Challenges of Robotics" (2017), has accumulated over 200 citations and remains a cornerstone reference for policymakers and researchers grappling with the legal and ethical dilemmas that robots introduce into professional and private life. Alongside colleagues, she has also explored innovative approaches to robot governance, notably examining how moral rules can be embedded directly into robotic systems through design — a concept developed in her 2014 paper on "Laws in Robots." Her early engagement with neuroethics, reflected in her work on brain-machine interface monitoring, demonstrates a career-long commitment to anticipating ethical challenges before they become crises. Lucivero has also championed questions of equity and access, interrogating how the so-called "Robotic Divide" risks deepening societal inequalities. Her engagement with European human rights frameworks further underscores her commitment to grounding technology ethics in concrete normative values, making her scholarship both academically rigorous and practically consequential.
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Top Papers
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- 2Ethical monitoring of brain-machine interfaces29 citations · 2007
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- 4Guidelines on Regulating Robotics14 citations · 2014
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