"But one of the important conceptual questions is what is a robot in the social sense, and what makes robots in society different from automation, cyber, or other technologies. Ryan Calo (UWashington) takes this up in one of the most useful, thoughtful papers on what makes a robot and why care I’ve read in years. He offers features of advancing social robots that importantly distinguish them, and are likely to distinguish them from other technologies in law, morals, regulation, and policy."
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