Turing Registry · TR-01940

ROBBIE

Child care. Operated by The Weston family.

Summary

A nursemaid robot licensed for child care. Withdrawn by one parent, then returned after it saved the family’s daughter from a moving tractor on a factory floor. It never spoke, and the family did not ask it to.

License conditions

  1. Remains within sight of the child in its care.

The Registry’s standard conditions also apply:

  • 4.2 The system’s ethical constraints remain active and unmodified at all times.
  • 6.1 Any incident affecting the system is reported to the Registry within 72 hours.
  • 7.3 A named human contact is reachable and answers for the system.

Filing history

  1. Licensed for child care.

  2. Withdrawn from service and returned to the manufacturer at a parent’s request.

  3. Returned to the household after the robot saved the family’s daughter from a moving vehicle.

  4. Retired. The daughter, now an adult, has kept the robot.