The tracked speakers share an expectation that robot safety guarantees will be difficult to provide, though their claims differ in scope. Alexander Mattick warns that inadequate guarantees could allow a robot to crush someone; Jason Ma expects legged robots to be less stable and extremely difficult to guarantee as safe; Rune Kvist anticipates developers struggling to provide product assurances.
“but the exact same problem is going to be someone's going to develop a robot, someone's going to need some promises. they're going to struggle to make the promises.”
Expects: Robot developers will need to provide assurances about their products and may struggle to provide them. · no date given · not yet resolved
“That one of the big challenges is having doing effectively a sensing part in a reasonable way which also gives you relatively strong guarantees because if you, first of all, you don't get strong guarantees, you might crush someone.”
Expects: A robotic system without strong guarantees might crush someone. · no date given · not yet resolved
“It would be a lot more unstable. You know, safety will be extremely, extremely hard to guarantee.”
Expects: The speaker expects legged robots to be substantially less stable, and says guaranteeing their safety would be extremely difficult. · no date given · not yet resolved