<strong>Have You Hugged Your Robot Today? </strong>

<a href="http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/robot_rights.shtml" target="_blank">Science Agogo</a>  27 March 2007.

<font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">"Earlier this month, Korea's Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy announced that it was drafting a set of ethical guidelines, called the "Robot Ethics Charter" for robot producers, users and the robots themselves. "How quaint," I thought, until further research revealed that not only were they serious about the charter, but that other futurists and AI experts are at this very moment diligently working toward establishing equal rights for robots. Have these guys got too much time on their hands? Are they getting a little too, ahem, close to their robotic creations? Or could their ethical deliberations really be warranted?...</font>  <a href="http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/robot_rights.shtml" target="_blank">Continues... </a>

Via <a href="http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/robot_rights.shtml" target="_blank">The Anomalist</a>

See also Ken Hollings' piece, <em>Robot Power, Robot Pride</em> in <a href="http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/SAJ2_sell.html">SAJ2</a> for a unique approach to the issue of robot ethics.