The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Policy, and Regulation for Human–Robot Interaction

Dissects the moral and legal challenges posed by interpersonal interactions with increasingly humanoid, expressive, AI-enabled robots.

Provides a unique perspective on an emerging area of scholarship and legislative concern: the law, policy, and regulations for human interactions with robots at an interpersonal level. An interdisciplinary approach dissects both the specificities of multiple jurisdictions and moral and legal challenges posed by humanoid, AI-enabled robots.This volume provides a unique perspective on an emerging area of scholarship and legislative concern: the law, policy, and regulation of human-robot interaction (HRI). The increasing intelligence and human-likeness of social robots points to a challenging future for determining appropriate laws, policies, and regulations related to the design and use of AI robots. Japan, China, South Korea, and the US, along with the European Union, Australia and other countries are beginning to determine how to regulate AI-enabled robots, which concerns not only the law, but also issues of public policy and dilemmas of applied ethics affected by our personal interactions with social robots. The volume's interdisciplinary approach dissects both the specificities of multiple jurisdictions and the moral and legal challenges posed by human-like robots. As robots become more like us, so too will HRI raise issues triggered by human interactions with other people.