Bio-robotics, such as bionics and neural interfaces, hold promise for restoring under-average human capabilities back to ‘normal’, but also for enhancing humans way beyond average.
Professor Bert-Jaap Koops of the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), will discuss the implications of bio-robotics for our understanding of humans and human rights in the 21st century. Building on research conducted in the European RoboLaw project (2012-2014), he will discuss the legal implications of bio-robotics, with a particular focus on the longer-term implications from the perspective of human rights.
Can – and should – we use human rights to preserve the human and to protect ‘average’, non-enhanced persons in a post-human future?
Will we need to adapt our understanding of ‘human’ rights to embrace human/technology hybrids?
What do bio-robotics tell us about our legal conceptualisation of the body, the mind, and the human person? And what can the law do to protect our bodies and minds against cyber-attacks once technologies are intimately connected to
- The lecture will be held in english
- There will be a reception at the Knut Selmers Collections (NRCCL lilbrary, 4th floor) after the lecture.
The lecture is open to everyone, however, please register at post@nfje.no