MAKING BELIEVE OR JUST PRETENDING: THE PROBLEM OF DECEPTION IN CHILDREN/ROBOTS INTERACTION

Robots progressively become involved in more complex tasks autonomously interacting with people in public and/or private social spaces. The need to produce efficient but also aesthetically interesting and consequently engaging interfaces makes the topic of robots' appearance and that of the adequacy of their social behaviour a central issue in robotics. It is within this framework that the issue of “deception” comes up as an ethical issue.