Robot Rights
Why Robot Rights?
Explains why conceptual preparation can begin before legal urgency, enforcement, or institutional settlement makes hurried definitions unavoidable.
Publications
Selected Publications
Essays, concept papers, and research writing.
This page provides a unified entry point to writing across the Institute’s research programs. Full articles are published on their respective research sites.
Recent writing
Featured publications
Publications are organized by program, but together they contribute to the broader field of human–robot relations.
Robot Rights
What Are Robot Rights?
Defines robot rights as a conceptual framework and clarifies its scope, boundaries, and distinction from existing law, consciousness, or personhood.
Robot Rights
When Does Recognition Begin?
Asks when identity, continuity, or status may begin to matter for a particular operational, institutional, moral, or legal purpose before rights or personhood are settled.
Robot Governance
What Is Robot Governance?
An introductory essay on governance, institutions, accountability, and public coordination in the age of intelligent systems.
Robot Labor
What Is Robot Labor?
A field-defining introduction to machine participation in organized work and to changes in tasks, coordination, supervision, responsibility, and value.
Robot Labor
Robots Do Not Simply Replace Workers
Explains how robotic systems redistribute tasks, reshape supervision and workplace rhythm, complicate responsibility, and change who captures value.
Publication model
Central index for program writing
This page lists selected work and links to the original research sites, keeping the Institute site concise while preserving each program’s own editorial identity.
Research
Explore the programs behind the writing
Publications emerge from the institute’s three core research areas and their connected research sites.