When a Robot Kills, Is It Murder or Product Liability?

Author(s): Ryan CaloPublication Date: April 26, 2016Publication Type: Other Writing
I am a law professor who writes about robotics. I’m also a big Paolo Bacigalupi fan, particularly his breakout novel The Windup Girl involving an artificial girl. So for me, “Mika Model” was not entirely new territory. For all my familiarity with its themes, however, Bacigalupi’s story revealed an important connection in robotics law that had never before occurred to me.