HRI and the Future of Law

Abstract

Following Sinek's what-how-why model, this project is about the creation of a dynamic regulatory instrument that co-evolves with robot technology development (what), using a robot and a regulatory impact assessments and evaluation settings (simulation and living labs) for empirical testing (how), for three reasons (why): (1) to provide the robot users with a comprehensive protection (not only focused on technical matters); (2) to provide roboticists with a practical tool to know what regulations have to take into consideration into the life-cycle process of the robot; and (3) to fill the existing regulatory gaps caused by the fastness of the technological progress and avoid over-/under- regulated scenarios.