Abstract
Because of the inherent potentials, robotics has grown increasingly popular in many workplaces throughout time. Unless malfunctioning, a robot can perform its assigned jobs non-stop, perfectly, and quickly. It can perform in extreme conditions, such as deactivating explosives; exploring mines; finding sunk shipwrecks; and rescuing survivors. These large-scale uses of robotics inescapably cause tremendous ethical, social, and legal challenges in the contemporary world, which need to be redressed. The main focus of this article is to analyze those challenges encompassing AI and robotics and shed light on the prospective solutions thereof. This paper argues that the challenges in the field cannot be solved by a single effort; rather, an integrated action is needed from all stakeholders. Hence, a joint action plan, accelerated by national–international collaboration and cooperation and led by the United Nations, might be the chosen alternative.
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Islam, M.T., Karim, R., Vyas, S. (2022). Challenges of Robotics: A Quest for an Integrated Action. In: Skala, V., Singh, T.P., Choudhury, T., Tomar, R., Abul Bashar, M. (eds) Machine Intelligence and Data Science Applications. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 132. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2347-0_18
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