More Than Machines? The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology

We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? Laura Voss explores this fascinating phenomenon, providing a rich insight into practices of animacy (and inanimacy) attribution to robot technology: from science-fiction to robotics R&D, from scien...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021
Series:Science Studies
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