ICRES 2021: International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards 2021 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY, United States, July 26-27, 2021

ICRES 2021 is the sixth edition of the International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards series and will be held in Troy, New York New York on 26th and 27th July 2021. The ICRES conference series provides a multidisciplinary forum for discussing the fundamental and pressing safety, ethical, legal, and societal issues in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, and the scope is not limited to physical robots. We invite full papers, posters and extended abstracts.

For further details, please visit https://www.clawar.org/icres2021/instructions-to-authors/. 

• Autonomy and liability
• Ethical principles in robotics
• Defining ethical guidelines for the design, use, and operation of robots
• Enhancement technologies: ethical issues
• Privacy & management of personal data
• Ethical frameworks: universal or region-specific?
• The role of industry and society in the definition of safety standards
• AI technology to block unethical/mendacious social-media communication
• Accountability in autonomous systems
• Embedding values and norms into intelligent systems
• Ethics and standardization
• Raising ethical awareness among stakeholders
• Transparency in autonomous systems
• Political and legal frameworks
• Formal and mathematical frameworks for robot ethics
• Implementations and engineering studies
• User and HCI/HRI studies at the intersection of the above issues

Workshops/Special Sessions

Potential organisers are invited to submit their workshop/special session proposals to the conference secretariat by the key deadline date. The proposals will include the title, aim and scope of the session with a list of potential contributions. All papers submitted for inclusion in the session will go through the conference peer review process.

Robot Exhibition

The robot exhibition, in addition to physical hardware, will include videos and software models and animations. Potential exhibitors are invited to view the exhibition page in the conference web-site for details of the requirements and process of taking part in the exhibition.

Committees

General Co-Chairs

• Selmer Bringsjord, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA
• M. Osman Tokhi, London South Bank University, UK
• Maria Isabel A. Ferreira, University of Lisbon, Portugal

International Scientific Committee

• Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), NY, USA
• Manuel F. Silva ISEP & INESCTEC, Portugal

International Advisory Committee

• Gurvinder S Virk, CLAWAR Association, UK
• Endre E. Kadar, University of Portsmouth, UK

Organising Committee

• Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu,, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA
• Mike Giancola, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA

Special/Workshop Sessions

• Maria Isabel A. Ferreira, University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Khaled M. Goher, University of Lincoln, UK

Publication

• Osman Tokhi, London South Bank University, UK
• Manuel F. Silva, ISEP & INESCTEC, Portugal

Publicity

• Abdullah Almeshal, College of technological studies, Kuwait
• Aman Kaur (London South Bank University)

Web-site

• Abdullah Almeshal, College of technological studies, Kuwait
• Dimitris Chrysostomou, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Mike Giancola, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA
• International organising committe
• Khaled M. Goher, University of Lincoln, UK
• Sarah Fletcher, Cranfield University, UK
• Mike Giancola, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA
• Endre E. Kadar, University of Portsmouth, UK
• Aman Kaur, London South Bank University, UK
• Philip Lance, PA Consulting
• Murrey Sinclair, Loughborough University, UK

Publication

ICRES 2021 proceedings will be submitted for indexing at SCOPUS and will be published by CLAWAR as open-access papers.

Venue

ICRES 2021 will be held in Troy, New York New York on 26th and 27th July 2021.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to icres2021 AT clawar DOT org