Calls for EU-wide robot rules
The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has called for the European Commission to put forward EU-wide robotics rules, to settle issues such as compliance with ethical standards and liability for accidents involving driverless cars.
Rapporteur Mady Delvaux said: “A growing number of areas of our daily lives are increasingly affected by robotics. In order to address this reality and to ensure that robots are and will remain in the service of humans, we urgently need to create a robust European legal framework.”
Delvaux produced a report on robotics issues which the Legal Affairs Committee approved yesterday (12 January) by 17 votes to 2, with 2 abstentions.
In their meeting yesterday, the Legal Affairs Committee members also urged the Commission to consider creating a “European agency for robotics and artificial intelligence to supply public authorities with technical, ethical and regulatory expertise” and they also proposed a voluntary ethical code of conduct to regulate who would be accountable for the social, environmental and human health impacts of robotics.
