  Social robotics development for the practice of care and European prospects
to incorporate these AI-based systems in institutional healthcare contexts call
for an urgent ethical reflection to (re)configurate our practical life
according to human values and rights. Despite the growing attention to the
ethical implications of social robotics, the current debate on one of its
central branches, social assistive robotics (SAR), rests upon an impoverished
ethical approach. This paper presents and examines some tendencies of this
prevailing approach, which have been identified as a result of a critical
literature review. Based on this analysis of a representative case of how
ethical reflection is being led towards social robotics, some future research
lines are outlined, which may help reframe and deepen in its ethical
implications.
