This article is an analytic register of recent European efforts in the making of ‘autonomous’ robots to address what is imagined as Europe’s societal challenges. The paper describes how an emerging techno-epistemic network stretches across industry, science, policy and law to legitimize and enact a robotics innovation agenda. Roadmap is the main metaphor and organizing tool in working across the disciplines and sectors, and in aligning these heterogeneous actors with a machine-centric vision along a path to make way for ‘new kinds’ of robots. We describe what happens as this industry-dominated project docks in a public–private partnership with pan-European institutions and a legislative initiative on robolaw. Emphasizing the co-production of robotics and European innovation politics, we observe how well-known uncertainties and scholarly debates about machine capabilities and human–machine configurations, are unexpectedly played out in legal scholarship and institutions as a controversy and a significant problem for human-centered legal frameworks. European robotics are indeed driving an increase in speculative ethics and a new-found weight of possible futures in legislative practice.

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为机器人让路！建立欧洲公私伙伴关系时以人和机器为中心

这篇文章是对欧洲最近在制造“自主”机器人以应对欧洲社会挑战方面所做的努力的分析记录。该论文描述了一个新兴的技术认知网络如何跨越行业、科学、政策和法律，使机器人创新议程合法化和制定。路线图是跨学科和跨部门工作的主要隐喻和组织工具，并将这些异类参与者与以机器为中心的愿景保持一致，为“新型”机器人让路。我们描述了当这个行业主导的项目与泛欧机构建立公私合作伙伴关系以及关于 robolaw 的立法倡议时会发生什么。强调机器人技术和欧洲创新政治的联合生产，我们观察到关于机器能力和人机配置的众所周知的不确定性和学术辩论如何意外地在法律学术和机构中上演，作为以人为中心的法律框架的争议和重大问题。欧洲机器人技术确实推动了投机伦理的增加和立法实践中新发现的可能未来的权重。