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Characteristics of a responsible community robot: Data from a Delphi study

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This data article presents a dataset collected through a six-round Delphi study to identify design characteristics for a responsible community robot, using a waterway monitoring robot as a case study. The study engaged twenty multidisciplinary panelists who contributed ideas that were distilled into 111 voting statements and rated from essential to unnecessary. The published dataset includes raw questionnaires, demographic data, intermediate study analyses, and supporting materials like transcripts and codebooks. This resource aims to support researchers, roboticists, and community groups investigating responsible robotics and stakeholder-engaged design.

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Who issued it

University of BristolAcademic · GB

Lead issuer

Legal forceVoluntary

Under whose authorityInstitutional policy

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Who it governs

Researchers and academicsGeneral publicAI developers and providersAI deployers and users

Researchers, roboticists, and technologists interested in responsible robotics, stakeholder engagement, and consensus measurement approaches.

Sectors

Research and science · robotics and autonomous systems

What the document contains

What's covered

The document covers the dataset description, methodology, and experimental design of a Delphi study focused on determining the characteristics of responsible community robots. It outlines participant recruitment, phase structures including demographics, ideation, and iterative voting, and data analysis techniques using consensus and stability measures.

What's missing

The text does not provide binding legal regulations, formal technical safety standards, or direct enforcement mechanisms for robotics.

Key takeaways

A six-round Delphi study involving 20 expert panelists was conducted to identify characteristics defining a responsible community robot.
The study utilized a case study of a waterway monitoring robot designed to assist citizen scientists.
Panelists contributed 170 initial ideas, which were combined into 111 voting statements and rated across Likert scales.
The published dataset contains raw demographic, ideation, and voting data along with transcripts, codebooks, and analysis files.

Outline

· Value of the Data
· Background
· Data Description
· Experimental Design, Materials and Methods
  - Study scenario and scope
  - Panel selection and recruitment
  - Study design
  - Data collection
  - Data analysis
· Limitations
· Ethics Statement
· CRediT Author Statement
· References
· Data Availability

Issued1 December 2025

Length3,731 words

FormatNot recorded

Physical AI Governancecontext

robotics responsible_innovation citizen_science stakeholder_engagement consensus