Few would have thought, just fifteen years ago, that a body of the European Parliament would discuss creating a special legal status for robots, with specific rights and obligations, or advocate for seriously considering a general basic income in the light of the possible effects of robotics on the job market. Still, that's happened recently, when the parliament's legal affairs committee passed a report containing several recommendations to the commission on Civil Law Rules on Robotics which should in turn, based on that, present a legislative proposal to be voted by the full house. In the latter scenario, the report's authors think that the responsibility should be allocated to all parties involved (the robot, the manufacturer, the engineer who wrote the software) proportionally to the level of instructions given to the robot and of its autonomy. The greater the autonomy, the more the blame should be put on the machine itself and not on any third party. In any case, the victim of the incident would always be compensated, by means of an obligatory insurance scheme and compensation fund.