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The challenges of making responsible decisions

Owen explains why we need to design robots that are able to make responsible decisions.

So far, we have seen that in order for a robot to be autonomous it first needs to be able to sense its environment and then to respond to it. But how does a robot decide how to respond?

In this video, Owen explains why we need to design robots that are able to make responsible decisions.

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