Monthly Archives: April 2014

And it was A Happening. The papers were strong, and the presentations if anything stronger. David Post wins for best line of the 2-day conference, and I’ll link here to his video when we have it up in a few days. (Unedited video can be found at the livestream site)

Meanwhile, however, we had some media at and around the event:

• Priska Neely, NPR, Keeping Robots in Line with the Law (download audio 4 min 6 sec)
• Joe Silver, ars technica, As human laws grapple with robots, there are no easy answers
• Kenneth Anderson, The Volokh Conspiracy (Washington Post), WeRobot2014 conference and the diffusion of robots into society
• Kenneth Anderson, Lawfare, WeRobot2014 Conference Underway at University of Miami
• Thomas Reinjes, Deutschlandfunk, Robocops können kein Auge zudrücken
• Karen Forero, We Robot 2014: Normativas sociales, políticas y morales, aplicadas a la Robótica.
• Camila Souza, Tech Cocktail-Miami, We Robot: The Uncertainty of Drones
• Kat Bein, New Times Blogs, Is Chief Justice John Roberts a Robot? We Robot 2014 Registration Now Open

I really think it was the best We Robot yet. I should recover soon.

We Robot 2014 is happening today and tomorrow. We have a great lineup of papers, all of which you can download and read from our Program page. There you can also see our schedule, and follow along on the livestream or via our own proprietary live video feed. Everything will be broadcast except the demos, which take place in different rooms.

The papers seem strong this year, so there’s plenty to read and think about.

I co-authored a paper this year on “self-defense against robots,” which is a fun topic. The paper is actually quite a basic application of tort law to robot issues – it’s one of those papers you write to lay a foundation for other papers. But as far as I know, no one else had written it, so I hope it is useful.