In episode #125 (March 8, 2013), Robots Podcast interviewer Sabine talks with Kate Darling, an Intellectual Property Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab. She recently wrote a paper on “Extending Legal Rights to Social Robots” where she asks if we should consider protecting robots that connect with us on a social level. She tells us about a recent Pleo robot torture session she organized as part of a workshop at the Lift Conference and the class she taught at Harvard Law School on “Robot Rights”.

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