Aye, Robot: My wish is your command, Master!
If your surname is Jetson and you have a home-duties robot called Rosie, my only advice is: treat her well. It looks like South Korea is about to consider what may be the first government-backed ethical code for robots. The Korean ministry of commerce, industry and energy hopes to publish guidelines for human-robot relations by the end of the year. According to Telegraph.co.uk, the ``Robot Ethics Charter'' is likely to be modelled on the instructions devised by the American writer Isaac Asimov in his series, `I, Robot'. The website explains, ``This was a sort of Hippocratic oath for androids: they were not allowed to harm humans, or allow them to come to harm through inaction; they had to obey orders; and they had to protect themselves if that did not compromise the first two instructions.''