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Safety and Ethical Issues in the Development of Human Assistive Robots

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Recent advances in robot technology have led to the practical use of various human assistive robots. With the increase in such robots, there comes a demand to establish a social system that ensures the safety of the users and protects trial subjects. In this chapter we give an overview of the safety and ethical issues in the development of human assistive robots. We first describe the recent standardization activities for the safety of human assistive robots. We next discuss an ethical issue in the development of robots and introduce our proposed stepwise development process for protection of trial subjects.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, 305-8573, Japan

    Koji Hasebe

  2. Center for Cybernics Research, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, 305-8573, Japan

    Hiroaki Kawamoto & Akira Matsushita

  3. Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences, Doshisha University, 1-3 Tatara Miyakodani, Kyotanabe-shi, Kyoto-fu, 610-0394, Japan

    Kiyotaka Kamibayashi

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  1. Center for Cybernics Research/Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

    Yoshiyuki Sankai

  2. Center for Cybernics Research/Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

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  3. Center for Cybernics Research/Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

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Hasebe, K., Kawamoto, H., Kamibayashi, K., Matsushita, A. (2014). Safety and Ethical Issues in the Development of Human Assistive Robots. In: Sankai, Y., Suzuki, K., Hasegawa, Y. (eds) Cybernics. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54159-2_15

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