Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) are increasingly conceived as applicable tools to be used in aged care. However, the use carries many negative and positive connotations. Negative connotations come forth out of romanticized views of care practices, disregarding their already established technological nature. Positive connotations are formulated out of techno-deterministic views on SAR use, presenting it as an inevitable and necessary next step in technological development to guarantee aged care. Ethical guidance of SAR use inspired by negative connotations tends to be over-restrictive whereas positive connotations tend to provide over-permissive guidance. To avoid these extremes, we report on the development and content of 21 ethical orientations regarding SAR use in aged care. These orientations resulted from a multi-phased project, which consisted of empirical-ethical research focusing on older adults’ intuitions regarding SAR use and philosophical-ethical research focusing on philosophical-ethical argumentations regarding SAR use. This project led to the Socio-historical contextualization of the ethics of SAR use, in which the ethical impact of SAR use is localized on three interrelated analysis levels: societal, organizational, and individual-relational. The 21 novel orientations regarding SAR use are structured according to these levels and further categorized into foundational and applied orientations. The first category leads to critical reflection on SAR use while the latter category inspires decision-making processes regarding this use. While going beyond the care-romantic and techno-deterministic gaze of SAR use in aged care, the described orientations balance themselves between their over-restrictiveness and over-permissiveness.

社会辅助机器人 (SAR) 越来越多地被认为是用于老年护理的适用工具。然而，这种用法带有许多消极和积极的含义。负面含义来自对护理实践的浪漫化观点，无视它们已经确立的技术性质。从关于 SAR 使用的技术决定论观点出发，提出了积极的内涵，将其视为确保老年护理的技术发展中不可避免和必要的下一步。受负面含义启发的 SAR 使用伦理指导往往过于严格，而积极含义往往提供过分宽容的指导。为避免这些极端情况，我们报告了 21 种关于老年护理中 SAR 使用的伦理取向的发展和内容。这些方向来自一个多阶段的项目，其中包括侧重于老年人对 SAR 使用的直觉的实证伦理研究和侧重于关于 SAR 使用的哲学伦理论证的哲学伦理研究。该项目导致了 SAR 使用伦理的社会历史背景化，其中 SAR 使用的伦理影响被定位在三个相互关联的分析层面：社会、组织和个人关系。21 个关于 SAR 使用的新方向是根据这些级别构建的，并进一步分为基础方向和应用方向。第一类导致对 SAR 使用的批判性反思，而后一类激发有关此使用的决策过程。在超越 SAR 在老年护理中使用的护理浪漫和技术确定性凝视的同时，