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What happens to privacy when drones are deployed by police? Whither the legal profession now that robots are performing legal tasks overseas? Robots are part of everyday lives – they are used in hospitals for intricate surgery, in the environment to monitor species, and on the battlefield, but the legal system is struggling to keep up with regulation of robotics, says QUT Intellectual Property and Innovation Professor Mathew Rimmer. QUT will host the first ever multi-disciplinary symposium on the legal, ethical and public policy challenges posed by robotics tomorrow, Friday October 7 in P Block of Gardens Point campus. Professor Rimmer said forum participants from law, philosophy, ethics, public policy, and robotics would take an urgently needed comprehensive look at robotics and the law as part of the emerging effort to forge a new discipline of robot law and policy.