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Oftentimes these hopes and fears, amplified by media
and science fiction, resound in a vague or excessive manner. On the scientific side, roboticists remain aware of the
promises but also the limits of their discipline. An autonomous robot, for example, cannot be equipped with completely adequate ethical rules, and realizing perfect
tracing or obtaining a full understanding of its behavior
is an unreachable goal. An ethical attitude consists in
connecting these two aspects of robotics in a coherent
manner, through a deliberation involving other disciplines, in particular, human and social science, as well as
the stakeholders and the users.
CERNA recommendations indicate a road to be taken to
enrich research with ethical reflection. They do not constitute
a complete set of principles that every researcher should
implement and do not impinge on the freedom of research.
The role of research institutions is decisive for encouraging
and supporting this approach in robotics and, more broadly,
in information science and technology.
Acknowledgments
We thank all CERNA members and auditioned persons for
their contribution.
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Alexei Grinbaum, Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy
Commission, Saclay, France. E-mail: alexei.grinbaum@cea.fr.
Raja Chatila, National Center for Scientific Research and University Paris-6 (University Pierre and Marie Curie), France.
E-mail: raja.chatila@isir.upmc.fr.
Laurence Devillers, National Center for Scientific Research and
University Paris-4 (Sorbonne), France. E-mail: devil@limsi.fr.
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, National Center for Scientific Research
and University Paris-6 (University Pierre and Marie Curie),
France. E-mail: jean-gabriel.ganascia@lip6.fr.
Catherine Tessier, ONERA, Toulouse, France. E-mail: catherine
.tessier@onera.fr.
Max Dauchet, National Center for Scientific Research, INRIA,
and University of Lille, France. E-mail: max.dauchet@
univ-lille1.fr.

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