# We Robot: physical AI company

Canonical ID: `6fa6b30c-571e-42e1-bf74-63980f8e3b5c`

- **Slug:** we-robot-conference

## Models

_No models registered._

## Former / Previously (6)

- [Bryant Walker Smith](/people/bryant-walker-smith.md) We Robot speaker / participant (secondary-verified)
- [Matthew Wansley](/people/matthew-wansley.md) We Robot speaker / participant (secondary-verified)
- [Ryan Calo](/people/ryan-calo.md) We Robot speaker / participant (secondary-verified)
- [Harry Surden](/people/harry-surden.md) We Robot speaker / participant (secondary-verified)
- [A. Michael Froomkin](/people/michael-froomkin.md) We Robot speaker / participant (secondary-verified)
- [Angela Huyue Zhang](/people/angela-huyue-zhang.md) We Robot speaker / participant (secondary-verified)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is We Robot?

We Robot is the annual interdisciplinary conference on the legal, ethical, and policy implications of robotics and, increasingly, artificial intelligence. It was founded in 2012 at the University of Miami School of Law by A. Michael Froomkin together with Ryan Calo (then Stanford, now University of Washington) and the late Ian Kerr (University of Ottawa). The three founders framed We Robot as a place where lawyers, philosophers, and roboticists would think together about problems that were still years away from the courts, and the conference is widely credited with catalyzing "robot law" as a distinct scholarly field.

### What does We Robot make?

We Robot has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. We Robot builds physical robots.

### Is We Robot a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, We Robot ranks in roughly the top 100% of companies tracked by the registry.


## Sources (30)

1. https://www.law.miami.edu/events/cle/we-robot/
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5. http://www.werobot2015.org/
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7. https://conferences.law.stanford.edu/werobot
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10. https://robots.law.miami.edu/2021/
11. https://werobot2022.org/
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14. https://www.uwindsor.ca/law/3450/werobot-2025
15. https://www.werobot2025.ca
16. https://ai-laws.org/werobot-2026/?lang=en
17. https://ai-laws.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/We-Robot-2026-CfP_Final.pdf
18. https://www.werobot2026.eu/
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20. https://robots.law.miami.edu/2016/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ELISH_WEROBOT_cautionary-tales_03212016.pdf
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24. https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/werobot
25. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2263363
26. http://www.werobot2015.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Hartzog_Unfair-and-Deceptive-Robots.pdf
27. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10506-017-9214-9
28. https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/5150/
29. https://robots.law.miami.edu/2016/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Rueben_Smart_PrivacyInHRI_WeRobot2016.pdf
30. https://robots.law.miami.edu/2014/

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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