The march of the robot dogs

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 305-318

  Sparrow, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

AIBO; Animals; Artificial intelligence; Ethics; Old age; Pets; Robot pets; Robots; Sentimentality

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; MACHINE DESIGN; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; ROBOTS;

AIBO; DESIGN AND MANUFACTURES; ETHICS; OLD AGE; ROBOT COMPANION; SENTIMENTALITY; SONY CORPORATION;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 33750157843     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021386708994     Document Type: Article

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