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On April 3-5, 2025, We Robot is coming to Canada! Since We Robot’s inception in 2012, this peer-reviewed interdisciplinary conference has brought together leading scholars and practitioners to discuss legal and policy questions relating to robots.

 

We Robot 2025 will be hosted by Windsor Law in the beautiful new Ron W. Ianni building, located beside the busiest international commercial crossing between Canada and the United States.

 

The city and the University of Windsor sit on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, which includes the Ojibwa, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. Waawiiatanong (“Where the River Bends” in Anishinaabemowin) has served as a meeting place for centuries.

 

We Robot is the most exciting interdisciplinary conference on the legal and policy questions relating to robots. The increasing sophistication of robots and their widespread introduction everywhere—from the battlefield to the home, from hospitals to public spaces—disrupts existing legal regimes and requires new thinking on policy issues.

 

If you are on the front lines of robot theory, design, or development, we hope to see you here in Windsor. Come join the conversations between the people designing, building, and deploying robots, and the people who design or influence the legal and social structures in which robots will operate.

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Key Dates

An open agenda
  • Easy Chair portal opens for submitting your proposals

    • November 1: Paper proposals due 

  • Poster and Demonstration Proposals Due (these will be accepted on a rolling basis)

    • April 3: Pre-Conference Workshop 

    • April 4-5: We Robot 2025

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Call for Papers

We Robot is heading to Canada! Join us for the first in-person We Robot conference north of the Canada-US border.  

 We eagerly invite submissions for the 13th annual We Robot Conference to be held at the University of Windsor on April 4 and 5, 2025. A pre-conference workshop will also be held on April 3, 2025. The city and the University of Windsor sit on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, which includes the Ojibwa, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. Waawiiatanong (“Where the River Bends” in Anishinaabemowin) has served as a meeting place for centuries.  

ORGANIZERS

We Robot 2025 Program Committee  

Program

Exciting things in the works – details coming soon

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Registration

Details coming soon.