Roboethics: A Bibliometric Review [2005–2021] Sandeep Tyagi*, Purnima Bhatnagar** * Analyst, WNS and Ph.D Scholar, under MOU between Dayalbagh Educational Institute and IIT Delhi, India. Email: sandeep.tyagi05@gmail.com ** Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Social Sciences, Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University), Dayalbagh, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. Email: pbhatnagar.dei@gmail.com Abstract Morality and ethics are inter-connected issues that have faced the human race since time immemorial. The expectation that all human interactions be based on ethical foundations has inspired the same concerns to resonate in the field of human-robot interactions. The present study aims to understand the contemporary status of the field of Roboethics through a Bibliometric analysis of literature published between 2005 and 2021. Information on 1405 documents sourced from the Artificial Intelligence (AI) dimensions database and further evaluated for relevance yielded 567 documents for analysis in VOS viewer. The results indicate increased importance of the field through a recent peak in document number publications in 2019 with seminal contributions of authors like Mark Coeckelbergh amongst others. The network of Institutions, authors, documents, countries and sources was derived as a result of citation metrics and analysis. Co-citation analysis and bibliographic coupling indicated important themes of documents such as Machine, AI ethics, engineering ethics; socially assistive robots; and robot for the elderly, robot rights and governance of legal aspects amongst others. The present study is unique in referencing a wide diaspora of documents for a more representative view of an area that is uniquely positioned to influence human lives. Inculcation of ethics in robots will indicate whether human lives will take a turn for the better or worsen. Keywords: Roboethics, Robots, Bibliometric Analysis, Ethics, Engineering Ethics, Sociable Robots Introducon Roboethics as a worthy field of study has gained substance in recent years with the Italian Robot Scientist Gian Marco Veruggio coining the term in 2002, resonating J. Storrs Hall’s (Foresight Institute, USA) notion of International Journal of Business Analytics and Intelligence 11 (1) 2023, 01-18 http://publishingindia.com/ijbai/ bequeathing “conscience” to machines and Paolo Dario’s belief of designing and manufacturing “robots to co- operate with humans” (Veruggio, 2005). Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robot Morality in 1942 indicated one of the earliest inspirations for attributing a moral quality to robot decisions, designed to protect humans from harm by robots. Roboethics was devised to promote and encourage the development of robotics for the betterment of human society (Veruggio, 2002; Veruggio, 2005). The technologies surrounding humans encompass not only industrial robots (Robot arms pre-programmed by a human instructor, operating under certain degrees of freedom, which have existed for some time and impacted manufacturing), but also, service robots (robots operating semi or fully autonomously in service settings like vacuum cleaning, lawn mowing, etc.). The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning have provided further opportunities for technology to adapt through learning (Torresen, 2018). As a result, AI is being implemented into nursing robotics, not only in the form of instruments, but also as “droids and humanoids, physical reinforcements, and also as animal/pet robots” (Erikson & Salzmann-Erikson, 2016). Uses of robotics span useful applications like teaching assistants (Alemi et al., 2020), for purpose of digital storytelling in museums (Claudio, Luca & Lupetti, 2017), in the hospitality and tourism sectors (Fust & Jamal, 2021); but also others like in warfare (Lin, Abney & Bekkey, 2014). The combination of increasing complexity, autonomy, learning and adaptive abilities is leading to a multiplication of ethical challenges. They include the engineering ethics of designers, manufacturers and maintenance services, as well as the ethical attitudes of users and ethical aspects of the robots themselves Crnkovic and Çürüklü (2012). Practitioners and Scholars have raised the alarm regarding the ethics underlying robot actions, in terms of the software controlling the robots being “ethically blind” in not