ICRES 2020 is the fifth edition of the International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards series, and will be held Taipei, Taiwan during 28–29 September 2020. The ICRES conference series (ICRES2019, ICRES2018, ICRES2017) provides a multidisciplinary forum for discussing the fundamental and pressing safety, ethical, legal, and societal issues in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, and the scope is not limited to physical robots.

Contributions in the form of full papers, posters, and extended abstracts are invited for possible inclusion in the conference on the non-exhaustive list of topics below:

• Autonomy and liability
• Ethical principles in robotics
• Defining ethical guidelines for the design, use, and operation of robots
• Enhancement technologies: ethical issues
• Privacy & management of personal data
• Ethical frameworks: universal or region-specific?
• The role of industry and society in the definition of safety standards
• AI technology to block unethical/mendacious social-media communication
• Accountability in autonomous systems
• Embedding values and norms into intelligent systems
• Ethics and standardization
• Raising ethical awareness among stakeholders
• Transparency in autonomous systems
• Political and legal frameworks
• Formal and mathematical frameworks for robot ethics
• Implementations and engineering studies
• User and HCI/HRI studies at the intersection of the above issues

Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers by the 15 February 2020. The papers accepted will be presented at ICRES 2020 conference and a selection of the best papers will be published by Springer.

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