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Gehry Building
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Human Suffering
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Humanoid Robots
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Julien Offray De La Mettrie
King Richard III
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Miroku Bosatsu
MIT Faculty
MIT Medium Lab
MIT Student
Real World
Robot Child
Robot Kismet
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Robotic Machines
Robotic Scientist
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Robotics Lab
Rossum's Universal Robots
Rossum’s Universal Robots
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Sociable Robot
Social Robots
Subsumption Architecture
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Uncanny Valley
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138831742
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Feb 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots, and the role of fiction in co-constructing the technological practices of the robotic scientists. The book engages with debates in anthropological theorizing regarding the way that robots are reimagined as intelligent, autonomous and social and weaved into lived social realities. Richardson charts the move away from the “worker” robot of the 1920s to the “social” one of the 2000s, as robots are reimagined as companions, friends and therapeutic agents.
Kathleen Richardson is Senior Research Fellow in the Ethics of Robotics in the School for Computer Science and Informatics, Faculty of Technology, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
