Robot Technology for the Elderly and the Value of Veracity: Disruptive Technology or Reinvigorating Entrenched Principles?
The implementation of care robotics in care settings is identified by some authors as a disruptive innovation, in the sense that it will upend the praxis of care. It is an open ethical question whether this alleged disruption will also have a transformative impact on established ethical concepts and...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 28; no. 6; pp. 1 - 15 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2022
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