Programme

Schedule (Tentative)

Time

8:30 - 09:00 - Mingling - Time for file uploading, poster mounting etc. 

9:00 - 09:10 Introduction and motivation for the workshop 

09:10 - 09:20 Session 1: Ethical, Legal and Technical Challenges and Considerations (Jim Torresen and co-organizers)

09:20–09:50 Session 1: Invited talk 1 – Yasuhisa Hirata, Tohoku University, Japan

09:50 - 10:30 Poster teasers (3-5 minutes each)

• “Clinicians' Perspectives on Safety, Ethical, and Legal Considerations for Home-Based Physical Rehabilitation Robots” Vignesh Velmurugan and Farshid Amirabdollahian (IEEE RAM special issue paper presentation)

• "Resilience Meets Autonomy: Governing Embodied AI in Critical Infrastructure” Puneet Sharma and Christer Henrik Pursiainen

• “When Is It Ethical to Engineer Success? Calibrated Self-Efficacy Support for Assistive Robotics” Tetsunari Inamura

• “Towards Responsible Verbal Guidance in Human-Robot Interaction” Sinem Görmez

• “The EU-OSHA online risk assessment (OiRA) tool for the automation of tasks: Human-centered deployment of AI-based systems and advanced robotics” Patricia Helen Rosen and Sascha Wischniewski

• “Beneficent Intelligence as a Pluralistic Multi-Objective Framework for Robot Ethics” Gaurav Dixit, Russell Perkins, Paul Robinette and Kagan Tumer

• “From Traffic Laws to Ethical Robot Behaviour: LLM-Augmented Formal Compliance Monitoring for Robot Assistants in Human Environments” Kumar Manas

• StartUp company presentation

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break + Putting up posters/interaction

11:00 - 11:30 Session 2: Organiser talks and interactive session with workshop participants

11:30 - 12:30  Session 2: Contributed presentation and interaction (Chair: )

• “A Roadmap for Responsible Robotics” Michael Milford, Raja Chatila, Séverin Lemaignan, Thomas M. Powers, Martin Magnusson, Nico Hochgeschwender et al (IEEE RAM special issue paper presentation)

• “Consent Chain Degradation in Embodied Multi-Agent Systems: Bridging the Gap Between AI Agent Governance and Robot Ethics” Mehmet Haklidir

• “Silicopathy: Generating Ethics through Pain in Embodied Artificial Systems” Minoru Asada

• “Fostering Public Acceptance of Robotics Through Inclusive HRI Experiments: An Empirical Study” Gizem Ates Venås, Martin Fodstad Stølen and Erik Kyrkjebo

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:00 Session 3: Invited talk 2 – Alan Winfield: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? A Case Study in Responsible Robotics

14:00 - 14:40 Session 3: Red and Blue teaming session (Praminda Caled-Solly)

14:40 - 15:30 Session 3: Contributed presentation (Chair: ) 

• “The Ontological Incompatibility of Moral Benchmarking: Deconstruction of the Trolley Dilemma's Failure in Large Language Models through Kohlbergian Structuralism” Cristina Brasi, Beatrice Seccomandi and Filippo Sanfilippo

• “Between Assistance and Manipulation: Towards an Ethical Framwork for Emotion-Aware XAI” Carolin Klute

• “REBAR: Reference Ethical Benchmark for Autonomy Readiness” Jonathan Diller, David Barnes, Rebekah Bogdanoff, Rhett Collier, Roddy Collins, Keith Fieldhouse, Yonatan Gefen, Cameron Johnson, Anuriha Kodali, Brad Kriel, Varun Murali, James Niehaus, Mish Sukharev, Joseph Vanpelt, Anthony Hoogs, Vijay Kumar and Arslan Basharat

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break Poster session and interaction: 

16:00 - 16:30 Session 4: Invited talk 3 – Toshie Takahashi, Waseda University, Japan

16:30 - 17:15 Session 4: Diversity and International Perspectives – diversity needs (selected speakers, representing diversity, will introduce their views on key questions about robot assistants with regard to their design, interaction skills, etc. + interaction with workshop attendees)

17:15 - 17:30 Wrap-up, concluding remarks and future directions (by workshop organizers)

17:30 Workshop Ends