In February 2018 the FRR brought together numerous experts in interdisciplinary fields to share their knowledge in a workshop with the goal of answering the foundational question of this organization: what is responsible robotics?

In November 2017 the FRR teamed up again with the 4TU Center for Ethics and Technology to host a drones workshop addressing the current developments in the fields of safety and security.

The IDEA League summer school program on responsible robotics and AI was designed as an intensive course on the basics of robot ethics to introduce students to the importance of the field and its applications. The program was hosted at TU Delft and welcomed 19 students from 9 countries.

The FRR and the 4TU are joining forces to co-organize an informal meeting aimed at discussing the role that ethics can and should play in the development of European (and International standards) for robots in healthcare.

Care robotics has been emerging as response to demographic and economic challenges in healthcare systems in the developed world. This workshop engaged with the particular ethical challenges raised by this increasing connectedness of care robots.

Given the drastic increase in the use of drones in these contexts, timely development of policy and regulations to guide both the design and deployment is crucial. This two-day workshop on Humanitarian Drones contributed to starting this process.