Predicting the Long-Term Effects of Human-Robot Interaction: A Reflection on Responsibility in Medical Robotics
Predicting the Long-Term Effects of Human-Robot Interaction: A Reflection on Responsibility in Medical Robotics
复制标题
DOI：
10.1007/s11948-011-9301-3
复制
发表时间：
2013-03-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Datteri, Edoardo
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Datteri, Edoardo
本文讨论了与医疗机器人相关的前瞻性和回顾性责任问题。建议现有的概念和法律框架足以解决和妥善解决与机器人行为造成的伤害有关的大多数回顾性责任问题（这里将通过参考达芬奇机器人支持的手术干预中发生的危害来举例说明，这些危害在科学文献和媒体中报道）。此外，需要指出的是，许多与医疗机器人相关的潜在责任问题只不过是众所周知的伪装的机器人工程问题，机器人专家经常将其作为研究和开发活动的一部分加以解决：因此，它们没有提出特别新颖的伦理问题。与此相反，将指出，与正常机器人行为引起的有害事件有关，可能会出现新的和具有挑战性的前瞻性责任问题。这里将通过康复机器人Lokomat来说明这一点。
This article addresses prospective and retrospective responsibility issues connected with medical robotics. It will be suggested that extant conceptual and legal frameworks are sufficient to address and properly settle most retrospective responsibility problems arising in connection with injuries caused by robot behaviours (which will be exemplified here by reference to harms occurred in surgical interventions supported by the Da Vinci robot, reported in the scientific literature and in the press). In addition, it will be pointed out that many prospective responsibility issues connected with medical robotics are nothing but well-known robotics engineering problems in disguise, which are routinely addressed by roboticists as part of their research and development activities: for this reason they do not raise particularly novel ethical issues. In contrast with this, it will be pointed out that novel and challenging prospective responsibility issues may emerge in connection with harmful events caused by normal robot behaviours. This point will be illustrated here in connection with the rehabilitation robot Lokomat.