Department of Thematic Studies: Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
Department of Philosophy, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
Sci Eng Ethics. 2020 Dec;26(6):3229-3247. doi: 10.1007/s11948-020-00268-4. Epub 2020 Sep 29.
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.
可穿戴机器人和外骨骼是相对较新的技术,旨在辅助和增强人类的运动功能。由于它们具有不同的可能设计应用,并且与人体密切相关,因此它们涉及到特定的伦理、法律和社会问题(ELS),这些问题在最近的 ELS 文献中并没有得到充分探讨。本文通过专家咨询和文献回顾,提供了一个可穿戴机器人最重要的伦理、法律和社会问题的分类法。这些问题分为(1)可穿戴机器人与自我,(2)可穿戴机器人与他人,(3)可穿戴机器人在社会中。