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Japan follows S. Korea in developing robot ethics/safety guidelines

Times of London

Posted: Apr 6, 2007

Japan’s Draft Guidelines to Secure the Safe Performance of Next Generation Robots calls for the formation of a special study group of industrialists, academics, ministry officials and lawyers to draw up a set of firm proposals to govern the development of robots. It suggests that robots “be equipped with the means for logging and communicating any injuries they cause to the people they are meant to be helping or protecting. It calls for a central database of all recorded incidents of humans harmed by robots, and demands that it be accessible by all robot-makers.”

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