A Taxonomy of Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Wearable Robots: An Expert Perspective

Wearable robots and exoskeletons are relatively new technologies designed for assisting and augmenting human motor functions. Due to their different possible design applications and their intimate connection to the human body, they come with specific ethical, legal, and social issues (ELS), which ha...

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Autores principales: Kapeller, Alexandra, Felzmann, Heike, Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard, Hughes, Ann-Marie
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Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7755623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32996058
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-020-00268-4
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description Wearable robots and exoskeletons are relatively new technologies designed for assisting and augmenting human motor functions. Due to their different possible design applications and their intimate connection to the human body, they come with specific ethical, legal, and social issues (ELS), which have not been much explored in the recent ELS literature. This paper draws on expert consultations and a literature review to provide a taxonomy of the most important ethical, legal, and social issues of wearable robots. These issues are categorized in (1) wearable robots and the self, (2) wearable robots and the other, and (3) wearable robots in society.
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spelling pubmed-77556232020-12-28 A Taxonomy of Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Wearable Robots: An Expert Perspective Kapeller, Alexandra Felzmann, Heike Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard Hughes, Ann-Marie Sci Eng Ethics Original Research/Scholarship Wearable robots and exoskeletons are relatively new technologies designed for assisting and augmenting human motor functions. Due to their different possible design applications and their intimate connection to the human body, they come with specific ethical, legal, and social issues (ELS), which have not been much explored in the recent ELS literature. This paper draws on expert consultations and a literature review to provide a taxonomy of the most important ethical, legal, and social issues of wearable robots. These issues are categorized in (1) wearable robots and the self, (2) wearable robots and the other, and (3) wearable robots in society. Springer Netherlands 2020-09-29 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7755623/ /pubmed/32996058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-020-00268-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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