TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jaime Banks
PY  - 2025
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781636672014
TI  - Android, Assembled
T2  - The Explicit and Implicit Anatomy of Social Robots
DO  - 10.3726/b22246
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1311906
N2  - Android, Assembled unpacks the phenomenon of social robots—not as monolithic machines but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from bodily features (like heads and sensors) and the elements we read into them (like gender and authority). Each chapter explores the philosophical, theoretical, empirical, or technical understanding of discrete robot components to offer a deeper look into how those parts contribute to what social robots are and how humans experience them. Part I (Explicit Anatomy) considers the manifest components of robots—those that make up the physical robot and its capabilities: Shapes, heads, faces, eyes, legs, feet, wings, color, clothing, gestures, postures, speech, text, screens, memory, information, sensors, actuators, organic elements, and distributed elements. Part II (Implicit Anatomy) explores the parts of social robots that humans infer or interpret: Image, interactivity, cuteness, gender, power, authority, membership, cognition, decision-making, aliveness, mindedness, obligations, and ultimately the kind of thing a robot is. Along with the state of the art and science, each author gives a provocation to highlight open questions and possible futures.
KW  - Social robot, artificial intelligence, bodies, assemblage, anthropomorphism, futurism, humanity, interaction
LA  - English
ER  -