Robots are not immune to bias and injustice

Sci Robot. 2020 Nov 18;5(48):eabf1364. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.abf1364.

Authors

Ayanna Howard^{1

2}, Monroe Kennedy 3rd^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Ayanna Howard is the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Professor and Chair, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. Email: ayanna.howard@gatech.edu.
² Monroe Kennedy III is an Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. Email: monroek@stanford.edu.

PMID: 33208524
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abf1364

Abstract

Human-human social constructs drive human-robot interactions; robotics is thus intertwined with issues surrounding inequity and racial injustices.

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Publication types

Editorial