ABSTRACT
This chapter presents three separate issues that may be relevant from the perspective of criminal law and are related to robots’ human likeness. First, people may intend to harm a human, but instead, they attack robots who they thought were humans. Such conduct may be punishable and treated as an impossible attempt. Second, the robots may be considered a part of a human, then an attack on the robot is at the same time an attack on the human. This is a consequence of the application of the extended mind thesis. The third issue concerns the possible hesitancy in saving humans by sacrificing robots, which may be treated as a crime of omission of helping humans in peril, sometimes called the law of the Good Samaritan.
