Yueh-Hsuan Weng's research while affiliated with Tohoku University and other places

... Robotic nursing assistants, such as Moxi by Diligent Robotics [110] and Robear by RIKEN [111], are designed to perform routine tasks like delivering medication, collecting lab samples, and assisting with patient transport. These robots help free up medical staff to focus on more complex patient care tasks. ...

... Furthermore, utilizing eight distinct classifiers allowed us to test a variety of simple (but sophisticated enough to suit a relationship between input and output well) to complex models [73]. In addition, to effectively cover the ethics of XAI, we considered sufficiently high coverage and order preservation [74]. Using multiple sizes of feature sets and varied combinations of them allowed us to cover the most available features while also studying each feature set separately. ...

... Later, a workshop on "Robots in Religious Contexts" was organized in the Robo-philosophy Conference Series in 2020 and moderated by Balle and Ess. In 2021, the International Journal of Social Robotics published a special issue on 'Religion in Robotics' (Trovato et al., 2021a). ...

... During or after an attack, a robot might also need to obtain consent and information from people involved, since human self-defenders such as police must sometimes request consent from victims and attackers to conduct searches or pass on information, and ask questions about what might have happened before they arrived, especially if the situation seems complex or confusing. Weng et al. explored some of the potential problems that designers might need to consider if a robot is used to obtain informed consent [137]. The authors observed that small acts of deception on the part of their NAO robot were largely accepted without questions, that the robot could misconstrue a bystander's interference as a user having consented, and that participants did not perceive any potential danger from the robot being very close to them due to its cute appearance. ...

... By presenting the robot's actions, timing, and other information on a visual interface and through speakers, the robot will be theoretically easy to use and generate a sense of ease. The robot's actions and the user's next move are useful information that can be presented to the user [8], and audio presentation of the timing of the actions has proven to be effective [17]. Therefore, we designed the display to show the current state and next move of the user and robot on the screen, and set up the audio to announce the timing and the user's move. ...

... Especially since current data-and understanding challenges for intelligent systems for people with diverse cognitive abilities (Lewis, 2020) still request some level of interaction of the person through the various voice-or touch interfaces of such systems. This can be beneficial as supervised learning loops, for example, can also foster users' understanding and transparency (Takeda et al., 2019). ...

... Furthermore, it is not considered adequate to attribute morality and legality to robots based on an ontological analysis (Gezer, 2022;Görgülü -Kesgin, 2021). Based on the literature, the number of studies on the interaction between robotics and religion in various belief systems has increased in recent years (Ahmed -La, 2021;Baffelli, 2021;Cheong, 2020;McBride, 2015McBride, , 2019Midson, 2022;Weng et al., 2019). Katz et al. (2015, 35) argued that the literature on the acceptance of robots focuses on Judeo-Christian, Shinto, and Buddhist traditions and emphasized that belief systems such as Islam and Hinduism have been neglected. ...

... In the practice of AI engineering, this could then proceed in such a way that tools and methods are selected according to certain principles to initiate an ethically aligned process or to design ethically aligned AI artifacts. The outcome of this approach are ethically aligned processes as well as designs, for instance for autonomous systems (Vakkuri et al., 2019) or assistive robots (Weng & Hirata, 2018), as well as ethically aligned tools, for instance, software models , or unbiased deep learning models (Danner et al., 2021), or tools that control or evaluate ethically aligned processes . Vakkuri et al. (2021) have developed a more detailed method with their ECCOLA approach, a methodological proposal for implementing ethically aligned AI. ...

... Nevertheless, textuality continues to play a primary role in the law: after all, before the advent of written law, the law was mainly situational and customary (Cyras et al. 2018), while the reception of Roman law, the cornerstone of any European civil law system, was possible only through textualization since the appearance of the duodecim tabularum leges. However, the increasing complexity of legal systems (Katz et al. 2020) and the increase in legislative production strictly related to the fast-paced advancement of technology (Feigenson et al. 2006) put into question the way in which lawyers have been interacting with the law so far. ...

... Robots are no longer to be used only complementarily (robots help human beings), but also substitutively (robots replace human beings). To this end, legislation, specifications for special zones (so-called tokku 33 ) and other regulations are to be adapted to socioeconomic conditions if necessary. 34 ...