Press reports about the Robotics Law Research Centre

Self-learning systems can streamline production processes, shorten waiting periodes and eradicate mistakes. Ideally. When ERP-solutions and machine software intertwine e.g. the process of ordering is automated, this can lead to not wished results. But who is liable and for what?

On December 26, 2019 Prof. Hilgendorf attended a conference in the Taiwanese capital Taipei and gave a presentation on the topic "New European legal framework for artificial intelligence". The invitation was based on the intensive cooperation between the Robot Law Research Center and the local Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Law under the direction of Prof. Liching Chang.

Robots are being used more and more in Germany's workplaces; some robots even work in close quarters with employees, i.e. without physical barriers to separate them. But what happens in case of an accident? Can a robot be "responsible" for an accident? Or must the employee bear full responsibility? Nicolas Woltmann from the Robotrecht Forschungsstelle at the University of Würzburg, provides answers to these and other questions about the current state of human-robot cooperation.

"Whether on the factory floor or in the operating room, robots with artificial intelligence are increasingly being used in the working world. Who bears the responsibility if they make mistakes?" An interview by Spiegel Online with Christian Haagen.

"In the future, artificial intelligence will be as commonplace as electricity and telephones - whether it's an automated car, a robot surgeon or a thinking factory machine. But what if autonomous machines make fatal mistakes?" A Deutsche Welle contribution with excerpts from an interview with Nicolas Woltmann and Susanne Beck.

Will robots in the future be liable to pay civil compensation or even incur criminal liability? And how can their increasing autonomy be reconciled with occupational health and safety concerns? Nicolas Woltmann, an employee of the Forschungsstelle, asked himself these and several other questions in the May 2018 issue of the magazine Sicherheitsingenieur.

Nicolas Woltmann, a member of the Forschungsstelle, gave an interview to the magazine Maschinenmarkt on legal issues raised in connection with the new European General Data Protection Regulation. The interview not only dealt with the latest Facebook data leak, but also with data protectionism and secure cloud computing.

How do we bring the issue of "ethics and AI" to civil society? This was the central question of the panel discussion of the HumanlThesia Congress on 28 October 2017 at the Global Ethics Institute in Tübingen.

The NZZ Format – the power of machines

Ju-RAMI legal reference framework goes online.

Robots on the advance.

What rights and duties do robots have?

Industry 4.0 – legally quite complex

Data collection mania: On the way to knowing everything about car drivers

Which decisions do we want to leave to machines to make? 22nd DVR (German Road Safety Council) Forum "Safety and Mobility":

Automated Driving and Ethics

Report on the 4th conference on technology law

Radio interview on 16.5.2016 with Prof. Hilgendorf on legal questions related to automated driving

Who is liable when artificial intelligence fails?

Die Welt - Special Edition "Networked Worlds": Crash by Remote Control

Whom should the automated car rather run over?

"When the robot goes crazy" - A prize from the initiative "Excellent Places in the Land of Ideas" goes to the university this year

Recording of an interview on the topic "vehicle automation"

VGT (German traffic law conference) 2015: Focus on technologies

Autonomics for Industry 4.0 & the Law

The end of exceeding speed limits

Computers in court – the technology is way ahead of the law

Beyond the human: mind and machine merge

Possible solutions for the liability problem

Who is liable if no one is driving the car anymore?

Legal questions regarding service robots: Who is liable?

Criminal law for automobiles

Are computers better drivers?

Who is liable for automated vehicles?

Liability for automated cars is still unsolved - Allrad-News

Liability for automated cars is still unsolved - Auto.de

Vehicle technology: Who is liable for automated cars?