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This special issue is the fruit of the interdisciplinary exchange and discussions at the conference Going Beyond the Laboratory – Ethical and Societal Challenges for Robotics (http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/ast/gbtl) held on 13-15 February 2014. We would like to thank the German Research Foundation (DFG), Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, the Ministry for Science and Culture of the state of Lower Saxony and Universitätsgesellschaft Oldenburg for their generous support of the conference.
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Lindemann, G., Matsuzaki, H. & Straub, I. Special issue on: Going beyond the laboratory—reconsidering the ELS implications of autonomous robots. AI & Soc 31, 441–444 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-015-0623-6
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