presented during the RSA Conference 14 in San Francisco. The main idea was to highlight how devices like robots raise new questions about physical security (for hardware and people) and about privacy.
6. What about security?
3 laws of robotics (Asimov, 1942)
#1 a robot may not injure a human being or, through
inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
#2 a robot must obey the orders given to it by human
beings, except when such orders would conflict with #1
#3 a robot must protect its own existence as long as such
protection does not conflict with #1 and #2
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7. Physical security
• Physical security of robots
– Hardware
– Software
• Physical security of people using robots
• Enhancing people’s physical security with robots
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8. Privacy
• Exponential growth of data with robots:
– Autonomous navigation
– Face recognition
– Open conversation
• Use value > Privacy
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9. Privacy
• Users can’t have full control on data
• Data vs Personal Data
• Big Data vs Privacy
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10. Privacy
• Trust the product
• Trust the company
• Understand data collection
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Nicolas Rigaud - Aldebaran Robotics created in 2005
Goal of founder & CEO: companion robots for the well being of humanity
Strategy: start with a small robot and then create bigger ones
Romeo second product
Google buying robotics companies lately
(not so far) because robots are already there
In personal life
Work
Teach
Play
Take care of elders, etc.
Who wants to talk to a screen? Do you use SIRI a lot? Importance of the shape
Verbal interaction is natural
Better techno + more confortable to talk to human shaped devices
Smart: there a computer inside
It can connect to the internet, use cloud computing or cloud data storage
It will learn from the interaction, so as to fit even more to users expectations
Last point seems like a detail, but
Let’s see how these laws don’t work:
#1
Would mean robots can understand the goal behind what they do
Milk example
First death recorded: 79 in a ford factory
#2 example with follow the ball
#3 same example as #2
Our first responsability, as manufacturers, is to deliver a safe product
Hardware must be safe, for itself (anti collision) and for other (anti pinch)
Software must be safe and secure regarding the hardware
Second point is people’s safety: we cannot let them take any risk. It’s impossible to prevent everything from happening, but we have to do our best for that
Monitoring people taking their medication, call for help
Tele-presence, go and check for you. Video feedbacks
Lots of data are used to monitor the robot security, we cannot let people do what they want with this kind of data
Personal data is a part of data collected by the robot.