Dissertação de Mestrado em Direito apresentada à Faculdade de DireitoThe development of Artificial Intelligence gives computers the ability to learn and act in an autonomous way, that is, independently from specific instruction by a human being. Given this scenario, this article presents the problem concerning liability imputation of damages caused by the autonomous acts of robots. An approximation to the problem presupposes some technical definitions about robots, AI and the notion of (technological) autonomy and an overview of the context and the approaches in which the recommendations from the Report with Recommendations to the European Commission on Civil Law Rules on Robotics (2015/2103(INL)) are based to circumvent it, which functions...