{"id":7024,"date":"2021-04-19T07:30:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T07:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/?p=7024"},"modified":"2024-01-09T07:42:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T07:42:38","slug":"animals-and-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/?p=7024","title":{"rendered":"Animals and Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Semi-autonomous machines, autonomous machines and robots inhabit closed, semi-closed and open environments, more structured environments like the household or more unstructured environments like cultural landscapes or the wilderness. There they encounter domestic animals, farm animals, working animals, and wild animals. These creatures could be disturbed, displaced, injured, or killed by the machines. Within the context of machine ethics and social robotics, the School of Business FHNW developed several design studies and prototypes for animal-friendly machines, which can be understood as moral and social machines in the spirit of these disciplines. In 2019-20, a team led by Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel developed a prototype robot lawnmower that can recognize hedgehogs, interrupt its work for them and thus protect them. Every year many of these animals die worldwide because of traditional service robots. HAPPY HEDGEHOG (HHH), as the invention is called, could be a solution to this problem. This article begins by providing an introduction to the background. Then it focuses on navigation (where the machine comes across certain objects that need to be recognized) and thermal and image recognition (with the help of machine learning) of the machine. It also presents obvious weaknesses and possible improvements. The results could be relevant for an industry that wants to market their products as animal-friendly machines. The paper &#8222;The HAPPY HEDGEHOG Project&#8220; is available <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2401.03358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rehe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rehe.png 758w, https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rehe-260x300.png 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fig.: Wild animals also collide with machines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semi-autonomous machines, autonomous machines and robots inhabit closed, semi-closed and open environments, more structured environments like the household or more unstructured environments like cultural landscapes or the wilderness. There they encounter domestic animals, farm animals, working animals, and wild animals. These creatures could be disturbed, displaced, injured, or killed by the machines. Within the context &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/?p=7024\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eAnimals and Machines\u201c <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,52],"tags":[347,69,935,1011,17],"class_list":["post-7024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maschinenethik","category-tierethik","tag-aaai-spring-symposia","tag-animal-ethics","tag-animal-friendly-machines","tag-happy-hedgehog","tag-machine-ethics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Animals and Machines - maschinenethik.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/?p=7024\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Animals and Machines - maschinenethik.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Semi-autonomous machines, autonomous machines and robots inhabit closed, semi-closed and open environments, more structured environments like the household or more unstructured environments like cultural landscapes or the wilderness. 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