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Toward Socially Aware Robots: Pain, Embodiment, and Governance

robot pain embodiment and governanceAcademicdocument

Assessment outcome

total 2/4 (actionability 1 + authority 1); currency unscored, so pro-rated to 3.0/6

Total2/6
Actionability1/2
Authority1/2
Currency—

Authorship & scope

Attribution (G4 evidence)

Named authors Minoru Asada and Yuji Kawai are clearly identified.

Issuer authority (evidence)

Level 1: Published as a peer-reviewed or edited conference proceedings book chapter by Springer, representing a reputable academic institution/publisher acting officially.

Issuers, who it governs, legal force and content are on the full record.

Eligibility gates

G1 · Retrievablepass

HTTP 200, 1249 words of full text extracted

G2 · AI nexuspass

The paper focuses primarily on cognitive developmental robotics and AI-driven society.

G3 · Governance nexuspass

The source explicitly addresses governance challenges and proposes agile governance frameworks for robots.

G4 · Attributablepass

Named authors Minoru Asada and Yuji Kawai are clearly identified.

G5 · In forcepass

No evidence on the page indicates this version is superseded or withdrawn.

Scored criteria

Actionability

1/2

Level 1: Provides general direction/principles (proposing agile governance as a framework) without naming specific binding obligations.

To address resulting governance challenges, we propose to apply agile governance—a participatory framework.

Authority

1/2

Level 1: Published as a peer-reviewed or edited conference proceedings book chapter by Springer, representing a reputable academic institution/publisher acting officially.

Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2721. Springer, Cham.

Currency

—

computed: no publish/modified date found on the page (never guessed)

Classification

Coverage topicrobot pain embodiment and governance
PerspectiveAcademic
Lifecycle stage1 Plan & design
Layerboth
Granularitydocument