Decker Michael, Dillmann Rüdiger, Dreier Thomas, Fischer Martin, Gutmann Mathias, Ott Ingrid, Spiecker Genannt Döhmann Indra
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Poiesis Prax. 2011 Nov;8(1):25-44. doi: 10.1007/s10202-011-0098-6. Epub 2011 Nov 3.
Service-Robotic-mainly defined as "non-industrial robotics"-is identified as the next economical success story to be expected after robots have been ubiquitously implemented into industrial production lines. Under the heading of service-robotic, we found a widespread area of applications reaching from robotics in agriculture and in the public transportation system to service robots applied in private homes. We propose for our interdisciplinary perspective of technology assessment to take the human user/worker as common focus. In some cases, the user/worker is the effective subject acting by means of and in cooperation with a service robot; in other cases, the user/worker might become a pure object of the respective robotic system, for example, as a patient in a hospital. In this paper, we present a comprehensive interdisciplinary framework, which allows us to scrutinize some of the most relevant applications of service robotics; we propose to combine technical, economical, legal, philosophical/ethical, and psychological perspectives in order to design a thorough and comprehensive expert-based technology assessment. This allows us to understand the potentials as well as the limits and even the threats connected with the ongoing and the planned implementation of service robots into human lifeworld-particularly of those technical systems displaying increasing grades of autonomy.
服务机器人——主要定义为“非工业机器人”——被视为继机器人在工业生产线上得到广泛应用之后有望取得经济成功的下一个领域。在服务机器人这一范畴下，我们发现其应用领域广泛，涵盖从农业和公共交通系统中的机器人到应用于私人家庭的服务机器人。从我们跨学科的技术评估视角出发，建议将人类用户/工作者作为共同焦点。在某些情况下，用户/工作者是借助服务机器人并与之协作的有效主体；而在其他情况下，用户/工作者可能会成为相应机器人系统的纯粹对象，例如医院里的患者。在本文中，我们提出了一个全面的跨学科框架，借此能够详细审查服务机器人的一些最相关应用；我们建议结合技术、经济、法律、哲学/伦理以及心理学视角，以设计出基于专家的全面且深入的技术评估。这使我们能够理解服务机器人在人类生活世界中持续和计划实施所带来的潜力、局限乃至威胁，尤其是那些自主性程度不断提高的技术系统。
