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I’m happy to announce that my chapter on “Issues in robot law and policy” has been published as part of the Research Handbook on Law and Technology (Bartosz Brożek, Olia Kanevskaia, and P...

https://www.discourse.net/2023/12/issues-in-robot-law-and-policy-published/

Better than science fiction: A team of researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) has created a totally edible and rechargeable battery, starting fro...

https://www.discourse.net/2023/04/electric-lunch/

We Robot 2023 will be in Boston, MA, jointly hosted by the Boston University School of Law and the MIT Media Lab. We Robot is the most exciting interdisciplinary conference on the legal and poli...

https://www.discourse.net/2023/03/we-robot-2023-cfp-boston-sept-29-30/

The question of robot and AI personhood comes up a lot, and likely will come up even more in the future with the proliferation of models like GPT-3, which can be used to mimic human conversations...

https://www.discourse.net/2022/09/on-robot-ai-personhood/

If you missed any part of We Robot 2021, or you just want to enjoy it again, you’ll be pleased to know we’ve got recordings of the sessions available on line. If you want to read the paper be...

https://www.discourse.net/2021/10/werobot-2021-recordings-now-availalbe/

(Metaphorically, only.) We will have recordings of substantially all the discussions up online in about a week. Meanwhile, you can still read the papers.  You might want to start with the prize-...

https://www.discourse.net/2021/09/werobot-finished-with-a-bang/

Join us for the 10th Anniversary Edition – Register Here. All events will be virtual. All times are US Eastern time. At We Robot we ask (and expect) that everyone reads the papers scheduled for...

https://www.discourse.net/2021/09/werobot-2021-starts-today/

We Robot, now heading into its 10th anniversary, is the leading North American conference on robotics law and policy. The 2021 event will be hosted by the University of Miami School of Law on Sep...

https://www.discourse.net/2021/09/we-robot-is-next-week/

I was very sorry to have to make this announcement: We had hoped very much to have a live event, but circumstances make it clear that it’s not to be. We’d looked forward to welcoming you back...

https://www.discourse.net/2021/08/we-robot-will-be-virtual-after-all/