During the two days, internationally-renowned scholars will participate in the conference discussing the following questions: What is the relationship between law and ethics? Can and should ethics be used for regulatory purposes? What is the most appropriate level for regulating AI: local, regional, international or global? To what extent should we rely on alternatives to the traditional top-down, command-and-control regulation, to deal with the challenges posed by AI? What are the legitimacy and democratic issues triggered by the involvement of private actors in the regulation of new technolo ..read more

As part of a series of 18 events organised across Europe, with the support of the European INBOTS project, on Friday 22 January 2021, Prof. Umut Turksen, Professor at Coventry University in the UK and Coordinator of the PROTAX project, presented in Spain the results of the PROTAX project and demonstrated the functioning of the tools that the project has developed so far. The workshop covered the following topics: risk assessment and tax fraud investigation framework, tax policy development and ideas to advance the fight against tax crime. The EU-funded Horizon 2020 project PROTAX focuses o ..read more

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been the subject of a great deal of academic interest in recent times; it has captured the attention of copyright lawyers fascinated by the thought of machines creating works of art, music and literature. There is no doubt that, as has often happened in the past during previous waves of technological advances, AI platforms—and especially, machine learning—have brought with them new opportunities as well as challenges. A few weeks ago the world could read the first article written by AI at the Guardian newspaper, but the hability of Artificial Intelligence to cr ..read more

Now in a fully virtual, interactive format, the CYBATHLON Symposium has taken place on September 17 and 18 in spite of the pandemic crisis running. The Symposium is a conference format that adds scientific and discursive context to the main event, the CYBATHLON, which will take place on November 13-14 2020. The CYBATHLON is a unique championship in which people with physical disabilities compete against each other to complete everyday tasks using state-of-the-art technical assistance systems. This year’s CYBATHLON Symposium has been dedicated to the user-​driven design approach and evaluation ..read more

The call for the 2nd edition of EURA Industry 4.0 Innovation Bootcamp is open. A complete and updated course designed to offer the most advanced insight on Robotics and AI regulation to engineers, law students, lawyers, practitioners, investors, entrepreneurs, business-people interested either in bringing R&AI products onto the market or in making use of R&AI solutions or industrial processes in their businesses, with a focus on Industry 4.0 themes. REGISTRATION EXTENDED until the 14th of September This year the course will take place online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, fro ..read more

Our project partner and leader of the team working in a proposal for a regulatory & risk management framework for Interactive Robotics, Andrea Bertolini, participated in a podcast on sports and human enhancement of the Itallian Volleyball Federation where he discussed about how new technology might empower humans for the practice of sports. In an specific way, Andrea Bertolini presented some real cases on which biorobotic and applications of Artificial Intelligence enhance human capabilities. New technologies are proposing solutions that allow human being ..read more

The value of the European Union shines specially in times of crisis. Given the strong spreading capacity and mortality rate of the COVID 19, the European Commission seeks to make healthcare systems more efficient in order to sustain European society. The Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Unit of the European Commission has launched an initiative to collect ideas about deployable Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics solutions as well as information on other initiatives that could help to cope with the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. At INBOTS, we are working to promote and ..read more

In the technological context described today as the 4th Industrial Revolution, which is more than just a description of technology-driven change, we jurists are obliged to understand the phenomenon. First, understand it, define it and delimit it; then, explain it and analyze it; and finally, propose fair and equitable solutions, step by step, because this global concept encompasses multiple realities, each with its own characteristics and particular impact. Of particular complexity are the impacts of technologies on working life as a source of personal identity. It is true that there is a co ..read more

A look at The Ethics of Technology Txetxu Ausín, Aníbal Monasterio Astobiza, Mario Toboso, Manuel Aparicio, Ricardo Morte and Daniel López (projects INBOTS and EXTEND, CSIC) Image of rony michaud in Pixabay  Robots, replicators, automatons, androids… are some of the different names given to self-moving machines. From the animated statues and hydraulic devices of the Middle Ages to the duck of Vaucanson, through the Greek myths that imagined fireworks, robots and self-propelled statues that have captivated the imagination and fed fears about the possibility of creating inte ..read more

Yolanda Sánchez-Urán, José Ignacio López Sánchez, Amparo Grau and Álvaro Falcón : INBOTS project members Amparo Grau, Financial and Tax Law Professor at the UCM, explains that the INBOTS intermediate review has been positive regarding its results so far. In the coming year, the team dealing with the debate on ethical, legal and socio-economic issues is going to focus more efforts on the environmental impact of robotics and artificial intelligence, besides privacy. Professor Grau addresses the importance of improving the functional technological training of workers, as well as of trying to ..read more