1st Edition

Designing Robots, Designing Humans

Edited By Cathrine Hasse, Dorte Marie Søndergaard Copyright 2020
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

Whilst most research concentrates on the imagined future of robotics, this book brings together a group of international researchers to explore the different ways that robots and humans engage with one another at this point in history. Robotic design is advancing at an incredible pace, and consequently the role of robots has expanded beyond mechanical work in the industrial sector... Read more

Introduction by Dorte Marie Søndergaard & Cathrine Hasse

Chapter 1 - Gotai: Corporeal aesthetics and robotic exoskeletons in Japan by Jennifer Robertson

Chapter 2 - On humanoids, avatars and the rest of us: Gender and designing our new Others by Dorte Marie Søndergaard

Chapter 3 - Performing the kitchen: Becoming a queering witness to the enactments of subject-object relations in a robotic kitchen lab by Pat Treusch

Chapter 4 - The automation of ethics: The case of self-driving cars by Raffaele Rodogno & Marco Nørskov

Chapter 5 - ‘Active citizenship’ and feeding assistive robotics: A crumbling story?

By Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen

Chapter 6- Drawing the posthuman future? Inequality in children’s conceptual robot imaginaries by Cathrine Hasse

Chapter 7 - Unpacking the cultural baggage of travelling robots: How socially assistive robots are integrated in practice by Lasse Blond & Finn Olesen

Chapter 8 - Robot companions for children and older people: Ethical issues and evidence by Amanda Sharkey, Natalie Wood, & Raihah Aminuddin

Biography

Cathrine Hasse, Professor in Anthropology and Learning, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Dorte Marie Søndergaard, Professor in Social Psychology, Aarhus University, Denmark.