Nine papers explore topics in the emergent field of applied ethics associated with the development and deployment of robotic and autonomous systems, including: armed robots and preventive arms control, ethical aspects of autonomous systems, the nature of planning in robots and its ethical implications, possibilities and limitations of the technical substitution of human work, ethical and critical views on studies on robots and roboethics, and new organizational options for anthropocentric-based robotic and autonomous systems. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
