ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the basic concepts from logic, ethics, artificial intelligence and robotics that are needed to understand the book. As the book is interdisciplinary, I assume that AI and robotics readers might not know the finer points of ethics. Similarly, ethics readers might not know the finer points of AI and robotics. Brief summaries are given of logical concepts (e.g. modus ponens, disjunction insertion), ethical concepts (e.g. deontology, virtue ethics, consequentialism, needs theory, care theory, contractualism, triple theory), AI concepts (e.g. Turing machines, knowledge representation and reasoning) and robotics concepts (e.g. sensors, cognition and actuators).
