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At what point does it become unethical to replace a human carer with a robot carer for an elderly parent or a child?

We will discuss some important non-technical aspects of robotics. What are the problems facing our society that robots might help to address? There are lots of tasks that robots could do, but should they? What are the ethical considerations around robots? Why are people scared of robots?

We speculate about the further future, and how robots may impact upon our civilization.

Every time I give a public talk about robots people ask questions about the impact on jobs. Let’s discuss some of the issues around robots and jobs, and people and robots might work together in the future.

We like robots but there’s also an element of fear, perhaps stoked by all those books and movies about our new robot overlords. I’m going to speculate a little about where the fear comes from.

It is not surprising public concern about robotic aircraft has prompted discussion about the potential to invade our privacy. However you might be surprised to learn our concept of privacy is changing over time and the real issue is autonomy.

Our planet is hurting and we need to understand better where the pain is and how the ecosystem is coping. We need data, but traditional methods are slow and expensive, can robots help?

Our population is getting older. Let’s look at how this ageing varies across countries, the problems it will create and how robots might help.

Food. With more people we need to have more of it, but there are real challenges with producing what we will need. Can robots help?

Robots don’t exist in isolation from human society; we create them to help us. What are the big challenges that society faces?