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April 06, 2007

Safety Guideline

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced a comprehensive safety guideline for the so-called "next generation robots" which are mobile robotic products that move around in the home and community, such as cleaning robots and socially assistive robots.  What is striking (to me) is that the committee that compiled the guideline consists of 16 people from government, industry and academia, and none of them are women.

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