An Anthropology of Robots and AI: Annihilation Anxiety and Machines
Author:   Kathleen Richardson (De Montfort University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Volume:   20
ISBN:  

9781138831742


Pages:   136
Publication Date:   12 February 2015
Format:   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.

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Author:   Kathleen Richardson (De Montfort University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   20
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781138831742


ISBN 10:   1138831743
Pages:   136
Publication Date:   12 February 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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.

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