Asimov's Ethical Guidelines for Robots - 21C version

Here are the qualities which a robot should support in people (with the explanations from the physorg page):

• Autonomy – being able to set goals in life and choose means; 
• Independence – being able to implement one's goals without the permission, assistance or material resources of others;
• Enablement – having, or having access to, the means of realizing goals and choices;
• Safety – being able readily to avoid pain or harm; 
• Privacy – being able to pursue and realize one's goals and implement one's choices unobserved
• Social Connectedness – having regular contact with friends and loved ones and safe access to strangers one can choose to meet.

My question is: why do we need a new set of such quality of life features? Have philosophical ethicists been inadequate sofar? Or are the problems of robot aids relating to humans fundamentally different from those of humans relating to humans? Perhaps we should go back to earlier times and view what qualities a good slave would seek to enhance in their master/mistress.

Read more about it at the physorg page.