Science Bar “Robotics and Ethics”

Brasserie le Dôme – 2 Boulevard Georges Clemenceau – 34000 Montpellier.

Robots are increasingly invading our daily lives, and this trend is only just beginning! Robotic technologies, once mainly intended for industrial use, have become much more diverse and are now used in a wide variety of sectors, including military, medical, education, transportation, and even domestic applications.

Robotics increasingly relies on artificial intelligence (AI), which enables the development of human-like capabilities such as perception, language use, interaction, problem solving, learning, and even creativity.

The presence of cognitive robots in society is growing rapidly and raising new challenges. These robots are impacting human behavior, bringing about certain social and cultural changes, and raising questions about security, privacy, and the protection of human dignity.

Therefore, ethical considerations are inevitable, as are the fundamental principles that must be respected during design (research ethics), programming (systems ethics), and the use of robots (ethics of use).

This participatory science-society debate will be moderated by:

• Guillaume Bagnolini, Doctor of Philosophy, mediator, and science journalist;
• Andrea Cherubini, professor at the University of Montpellier – researcher at the Montpellier Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics, and Microelectronics (LIRMM) – IDH (Interactive Digital Humans) Team;
• Denis Mottet, professor at EuroMov – University of Montpellier (multidisciplinary research center on human movement);
• Nao, the little humanoid robot.

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