(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 'Depending on future advances in this research area, one should not exclude the possibility of future robots' sentience, emotions and, accordingly moral status,' a working group on emerging technologies of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST), a scientific advisory body at UNESCO, said in a preliminary draft report released this month. Since the first industrial robots were used in car manufacturing in the 1950s, they have become a fact of modern life. Robots are used in factories, war-zones, medicine, elderly...
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