ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the workings of a future human-robot society and efforts to imbue robots with the grammar of ethical values, moral bindings and social interactions. There is always the temptation to form rules for robots considering them as tools, products, artifacts and machinery. A slightly different approach is advocated by Isaac Asimov in his laws. Asimov in the original 1942 version of the law dealt in the realms of operational morality which he tried to bring to a higher moral agency, catering to a greater good, seemingly closer to full moral agency in the revision of his laws in 1985. Any robot at the very least has a potential to be an ethical impact agent, so its actions could be harmful or beneficial to human beings. The robot will resemble mimic the growth as seen in children; observation, extrapolation and correspondence with the behaviour of adult human beings.
