Automation and Collaborative Robotics: A Guide to the Future of Work

© Peter Matthews, Steven Greenspan 2020

P. Matthews, S. GreenspanAutomation and Collaborative Roboticshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5964-1_7

7. Robots in Society

Corporate Responsibilities

Peter Matthews¹  and Steven Greenspan²

(1)

Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, UK

(2)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

 

Unlike traditional injuries, tort law will have difficulty finding the injuries caused by highly sophisticated AI to be the fault of someone’s negligence or some product’s defect.¹

—Yoshikawa, J. (2018)

Consider the humble vacuum robot. In Chapter 1, “Will Robots Replace You?”, we recounted the story in which a friend’s Roomba navigated itself into and through a cat litter box and across her wood floor, depositing and spreading litter and stool. In her ...