Registration is open for We Robot 2015 and we have a great program planned:
Friday, April 10
8:00 am
Registration
8:40 am
Welcome Remarks: Dean Kellye Testy, University of Washington School of Law
Introductory Remarks: Ryan Calo, Program Committee Chair
9:00 am
Paper: Kate Darling, Who’s Johnny? Anthropomorphic framing in human-robot interaction, integration, and policy
Discussant: Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley
10:00 am Break
10:15 am
Paper: Anupam Chander, Robot Passports
Discussant: Ann Bartow, Pace Law School
11:15 am Break
11:30 am
Panel: Robotics Governance
- Peter Asaro, Regulating Robots: A Multi-Scale Approach to Developing Robot Policy and Technology
- Jason Millar, Sketching an Ethics Evaluation Tool for Robot Design and Governance
- Kristen Thomasen, Driving Lessons: Learning from the History of Automobile Regulation to Legislate Better Drones
Moderator: David Post, Senior Fellow, Open Technology Institute/New America Foundation
1:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm
Paper: Drew Simshaw et al., Regulating Healthcare Robots in the Hospital and the Home: Considerations for Maximizing Opportunities and Minimizing Risks
Discussant: Cindy Jacobs, University of Washington
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm Paper: J. Nathan Matias et al., Legal and Ethical Issues in the Use of Telepresence Robots: Best Practices and Toolkit
Discussant: Laurel Riek, University of Notre Dame
4:15 pm Break
4:30 pm
Demonstrations
5:30 pm
Reception
7:00 pm
Special Guest Lecture
Saturday, April 11
8:00 am
Registration
8:30 am
Paper: Woodrow Hartzog, Unfair and Deceptive Robots
Discussant: Ryan Calo, University of Washington School of Law
9:30 am Break
9:45 am
Paper: Karen Levy & Tim Hwang, The Presentation of Machine in Everyday Life
Discussant: Evan Selinger, Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
10:45 am Break
11:00 am
Paper: Tamara Bonaci et al., I Did It My Way: On Law and Operator Signatures for Teleoperated Robots
Discussant: Margot Kaminski, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm
Panel: Robot Economics
- Colin Lewis, Robohub.org
- Andra Keay, Silicon Valley Robotics
- Garry Mathiason, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation, Littler Mendelson
Moderator: Dan Siciliano, Stanford School of Law
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm
Paper: Patrick Moore et al., Personal Responsibility in an Age of User-Controlled Neuroprosthetics
Discussant: Meg Leta Jones, Communication, Culture & Technology, Georgetown University
3:45 pm
Concluding Remarks: Ryan Calo & Michael Froomkin