Scientists are seriously thinking to write a code for robots due to problem posed by development of robotics. Experts in South Korea are creating an ethical code for human to abuse robots and vice versa. According to BBC, “a group of leading roboticists called the European Robotics Network (Euron) has even started lobbying governments for legislation.”

Since robots are now showing up in everyday life, and as they gain intelligence, who will be held responsible if they injure some one ,user, the designer or the robot itself?

Isaac Asimov was considering these problems in the 1940s, when he made his “three laws of robotics”.

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 it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second law.

There are obviously some very difficult issues to deal with, like the robot being able to tell the difference between humans, other robots, and things. So is an ‘ethical code’ for ‘bots a good idea? - or just a silly waste of time?