Social robotics and the good life : : the normative side of forming emotional bonds with robots / / edited by Janina Loh, Wulf Loh.

Robots as social companions in close proximity to humans have a strong potential of becoming more and more prevalent in the coming years, especially in the realms of elder day care, child rearing, and education. As human beings, we have the fascinating ability to emotionally bond with various counte...

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Superior document:Edition Moderne Postmoderne
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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Edition Moderne Postmoderne
Physical Description:1 online resource (265 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction - Social Robotics and the Good Life
  • Part I - Understanding, Defining, Conceptualizing
  • Virtues, Robots, and Good Lives: Who Cares?
  • The Relational Turn
  • From Tool Use to Social Interactions
  • Reflecting (on) Replika
  • Part II - Design, Imitation, Trust
  • You Can Love a Robot, But Should You Fight With it?
  • Empathic Machines?
  • Part III - Care, Love, Sex
  • Granny and the Sexbots
  • Alice Does not Care
  • Emotional Embodiment in Humanoid Sex and Love Robots
  • Contributors.