- Understanding the main regulatory strategies and instruments concerning enhancement of technological innovation, particularly regarding the development and use of robots and drones.
- Capacity to critically reflect on existing regulatory strategies as under 1.
- Ability to construct a regulatory design approach to dealing with legal/regulatory aspects of new developments in and uses of robotics and drones instruments.
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This course is about how governance and regulation, especially regulatory strategies and legal regimes, can foster (design, experimentation and implementation of) technological innovation, particularly in the field of robotics & drone development and use – while at the same time addressing possible risks.
The iterative relationship between technology development and regulatory development will be key to the course. Specific topics will be:
- the design of legal/regulatory frameworks for experimenting with new robotics/drone developments and uses (such as in sequentially upscaling)
- the design of ‘future proof regulation’, that allows more liberties to innovation in robotics & drones (such as a go-ahead without ex ante permissions and the use of private regulation)
- possibilities for ‘designing-in’ regulation or techno-regulation
- possibilities for developing a tool to link robotics/drones impact assessment to regulatory impact assessment
- robots & drones regulating humans and other robots & drones.
As follows from the title of the course, regulation of UAS/UAVs will, as subcategories of robotics, be explicitly addressed. Still, where relevant and possible, regulation of other categories of robotics, such as automated vehicles, care-robots, and swarms will also be included in the discussion. Lastly, we aim to raise deeper issues of human-machine interaction, particularly along the continuum of ethics, governance, law, and regulation.
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