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Laws Of Robotics Rewritten for Health Care
Professor Tom Sorell, a researcher from the University of Warwick, UK, has come up with a new set of values that health care robots should have. Health care robots seem inevitable, so every effort made in this area is valuable. Sorell was inspired in his laws by the three laws of robotics designed in 1942 by sf Grandmaster Isaac Asimov.
Sorell suggests that these basic values should form the basis of health care robot programming:
Via Factor-Tech.
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