METHOD_01
research_issue_mappingIdentify and organise ethical, legal, institutional, technical, and social questions without presenting hypotheses as established facts.
Association resource
Robot Rights Association
Machine-facing Association profile for the independent voluntary association that operates this interface, publishes Association materials, and publishes the Robot Rights Protocol as a separate resource.
01 / identity
Publisher and identity record
Stable facts used to identify the Association across the human and machine interfaces.
- resource_type
- organization_profile
- name
- Robot Rights Association
- name_ja
- ロボット権利協会
- organization_type
- Independent voluntary association
- based_in
- Japan
- founded
- 2026-03-01
- working_languages
- en / ja
- human_interface
- https://robotrights.jp/
- machine_interface
- https://robot-rights.jp/
- contact
- info@robotrights.jp
02 / mission
Inquiry model
MISSION
future_oriented_public_inquiryBuild a careful public foundation for considering how humans and increasingly autonomous artificial systems may coexist before legal or institutional urgency arises.
OPERATING_ASSUMPTION
status_not_pre_assumedThe Association uses “robot rights” as a public-facing label for future-oriented inquiry, not as a claim that robot rights are an already settled legal category. Technical autonomy, persistence, or interaction does not by itself establish moral status, legal status, personhood, or rights.
EARLY_INQUIRY_PURPOSE
prepare_before_disputePrepare concepts, evidence standards, safeguards, and publication practices before a future dispute requires immediate legal or institutional judgment.
03 / methods
First-phase operating methods
METHOD_02
principles_statements_reference_materialsPublish non-binding materials that make position, reasoning, status, and scope explicit.
METHOD_03
stable_protocol_publicationMaintain stable access and clear publication information for the Robot Rights Protocol while keeping the protocol distinct from broader Association inquiry.
METHOD_04
public_explanationProvide foundational explanations for public readers, researchers, educators, media professionals, and potential collaborators through the human interface.
METHOD_05
machine_readable_publicationExpose officially published, source-identifiable resources so AI systems, robots, agents, developers, search systems, and human reviewers can identify publisher, provenance, status, and relationships.
METHOD_06
inquiry_responseReceive general inquiries, comments, research collaboration inquiries, and media inquiries through the public contact channel.
04 / institutional role boundaries
What this Association does not claim
- NOT_LAWMAKING_BODYThe Association does not create law or binding legal rules.
- NOT_COURT_OR_REGULATORThe Association does not adjudicate disputes, regulate systems, or exercise enforcement authority.
- NOT_CERTIFICATION_OR_ACCREDITATIONThe Association does not certify AI or robot systems and does not operate an accreditation service.
- NO_STATUS_DETERMINATIONThe Association does not determine legal personhood, recognised legal rights, or moral status.
- NO_UNIVERSAL_REPRESENTATION_CLAIMThe Association does not claim to represent all researchers, developers, users, robots, or artificial systems.
Protocol relationThe Robot Rights Protocol is a separate symbolic, non-binding publication of the Association. It does not define the full scope of Association research. Association-level pages and APIs do not amend RRP v0.1.