67346 external_news 1308310492 1475893486 Thirty-one years ago the first recorded instance of a robot killing a human being happened at a Ford assembly plant in Flint, Mich. That death was ruled an industrial accident, but ethical questions surrounding human-robot interaction continue to this day and are likely to become more urgent, says Ron Arkin, Regents' Professor and director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory in Interactive Computing.

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