Europe considers a robot tax

Legal status, code of ethics, tax situation… Europe is pondering robots. On January 12, members of the Committee on Legal Affairs met to discuss regulations for robotics to be adopted by the European Union. Already in May 2016, the same commission proposed to give robots the status of "electronic persons", and thus rights and duties. The idea, among others, was to create a code of ethics determining responsibility in case of damages caused by a robot. The automobile sector and its autonomous vehicles is "the sector that is most in need of European and international regulations," emphasized Belgian Eurodeputy Mady Delvaux.