Human robots as a new science of human beings �Robot� is an ambiguous word. It has two different meanings. Robots can be physical artefacts with practical applications and economic value or they can be a new science of human beings. For robots as practical artefacts, success is that there are people who are disposed to…
Anderson [1] describes a succinct history of pharmacy, charting it from early periods to the present day. He describes how the Sumerians in 2000 BC were using plant drugs and during the reign of King Hammurabi (1795�1750 BC), a system of laws, known as Hammurabi�s Code, was established. Medical and surgical practices were regulated, and…
It is no news that we have a global ageing problem. For years now, the World Health Organization, the United Nations and national governments publish world-population statistics that show contracting demographic pyramids. Current world population is over 7 billion people. Projections for 2050 are between 8.3 and 10.9 billion, depending on low or high fertility…
This chapter presents a reflection about the future implications of human‐robot interaction. It is a common belief, in fact, that robotics, especially the service category, will have a great impact on many aspects of our society in the near future. Society is actually experiencing what Łichocki et al. [1] defined as a �robotic demographic explosion.�…
Practically by definition, all robots are equipped with the ability to sense, process, and record the world around them [1]. In order to offer the best performance, they are continuously gathering information. Under these circumstances, if these robots are compromised, then a two-dimensional security problem arises: first, security issues regarding the virtual side of the…
one of the main current issues about robotics is its liability regimes, which is especially referred to robots with a high grade of autonomy.Assuming that the term �responsibility� is a cultural product (it is the result of the interaction between sociability and moral agency; hence, each state has his own liability rules), we are going…
The fractional calculus is a branch of mathematics that attracted attention since G.W. Leibnitz proposed it in the seventeenth century. However, the researchers were not attracted to this area because of the lack of applications and analytical results of the fractional calculus.On the contrary, the fractional calculus currently attracts the attention of a large number…
The concept of automated risk analysis for domestic scenes is a developing area of research, where the goal is to allow the quantification of measurable elements of risk into some sort of coherent risk score. With the definition of a risk score, thresholds can be defined to trigger certain actions, this might be a cue…
There is no difference between a deep learning humanoid robot and the finest of humans. They are simply our reflection.Would you have entered this Boeing 737 that just lands? The robotic co-pilot Aircrew Labour In-cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) has been used in simulation mode to fully fly and land a Boeing 737, as shown in Figure 1….