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Robotic Knitting: Re-Crafting Human-Robot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting
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Abstract As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards "cobot" technologies, this book provides a technofeminist intervention. The author not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can e... view more
As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards "cobot" technologies, this book provides a technofeminist intervention. The author not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting, but also contributes a tangible example of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-negotiates the boundaries between formalisation and embodiment, craft and high-tech as well as useful and dysfunctional machines. It re-crafts the nature of collaboration between human and robot. This finally entails an alternative mode of relating - a mode that enables an account of careful coboting.... view less
Keywords
sociotechnical system; man-machine system; robot; artificial intelligence; body; gender; technology
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Free Keywords
Cobots; Interdisciplinarity; Science; Sociology; Technofeminsim
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
156 p.
Series
Science Studies
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839452035
ISBN
978-3-8394-5203-5
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0