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Science 19 December 2008:
Vol. 322. no. 5909, pp. 1800 - 1801
DOI: 10.1126/science.1164582
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Perspectives

COMPUTER SCIENCE:
The Ethical Frontiers of Robotics

Noel Sharkey

The use of robots to care for the young and the old, and as autonomous agents on the battlefield, raises ethical issues.

Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK. E-mail: noel{at}dcs.shef.ac.uk

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