The 2023 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO) in Berlin, Germany featured important research on the ethical, economic, and social implications of robotics: talks discussed tradeoffs between automation, egalitarianism, and growth; public trust in robotics; understanding occasional human cruelty toward robots; and human–robot collaboration on the job, whether through robotic exoskeletons, supernumerary limbs, or in hand-off tasks on job sites.