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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(23,87,120)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(23,87,120)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">It is a great pleasure to invite your participation in our newly formed <b>IEEE SA P7007 - Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems Working Group</b>(1) sponsored by IEEE Standards Association and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. This group arose from the fruitful discussions conducted in <b>The IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems</b>(2) which aims to establish a global conversation among experts and leaders from academia, science, government and corporate sector about how to prioritize ethical considerations in the design and development of autonomous and intelligent systems.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(23,87,120)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Ethics is the new frontier for the development of products, systems and services in next decades. Considering Ethics during the design of Robotics and Automation Systems is an urgent task. Day by day, new machines and systems are being developed to help and assist humans in a myriad of activities. To guarantee their acceptability and alignment with what stakeholders expect, in terms of benefits and increase of human well-being, it is essential to consider applied ethics in the broadest sense by cross-pollinating expertise from domains that include (but are not limited to) Philosophy, Psychology, Law and Engineering.  </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(23,87,120)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">IEEE P7007 WG aims to create a standard with a set of formal definitions to enable the development of Robotics and Automation Systems in accordance with worldwide Ethics and Moral theories, with a particular emphasis on aligning the ethics and engineering communities to understand how to pragmatically design and implement these systems in unison. Our intention is that the P7007 Standard guide practitioners in multiple scenarios. For instance, it could provide a <i>software framework</i> for the  development of ethically-driven Robotics and Automation Systems; or be used as a reference <i>thesaurus</i> to enable clear and precise communication among members from different communities.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(23,87,120)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Please send a message to Edson Prestes(3), UFRGS, Brazil (<a href="mailto:edson.prestes@ieee.org"><span style="color:rgb(0,105,217)">edson.prestes@ieee.org</span></a>)</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,105,217)"><span style="color:rgb(23,87,120)">To download the<i> pdf version</i> access : <a href="http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~prestes/P7007/cfp.pdf"><span style="color:rgb(0,105,217)">http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~prestes/P7007/cfp.pdf</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,105,217)"><span style="color:rgb(23,87,120)">(1) <a href="https://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/7007.html"><span style="color:rgb(0,105,217)">https://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/7007.html</span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,105,217)"><span style="color:rgb(23,87,120)">(2)</span><span style="font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(23,87,120)"><a href="http://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/ec/autonomous_systems.html"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,105,217)">http://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/ec/autonomous_systems.html</span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,105,217)"><span style="color:rgb(23,87,120)">(3)</span><span style="font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(23,87,120)"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,105,217)"><a href="http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~prestes">http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~prestes</a></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,105,217)"><span style="font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(23,87,120)"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,105,217)"><span style="font-size:10px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(23,87,120)"><br></span></p><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><div style="text-align:justify"><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span>Prof. Dr. Edson Prestes</span></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span>Chair, IEEE SA P7007 Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems Working Group </span></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span>Vice-Chair, IEEE RAS Ontologies for Robotics and Automation Working Group</span></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span>Founding Chair, IEEE South Brazil RAS Chapter</span></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span><b>IEEE Robotics and Automation Society</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:14px"><span></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span>Head, ϕ-Robotics Research Group</span></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span>Informatics Institute </span></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span><b>Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul </b></span></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span>Brazil</span></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:14px"><span></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span><b>group page:</b> <a href="http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/phi-group/" target="_blank"><span>http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/phi-group/</span></a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">











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