Cultural Robotics: The Culture of Robotics and Robotics in Culture

• Main Authors: Hooman Samani, Elham Saadatian, Natalie Pang, Doros Polydorou, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Ryohei Nakatsu, Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Koh
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publishing 2013-12-01
• Series: International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5772/57260

In this paper, we have investigated the concept of “Cultural Robotics” with regard to the evolution of social into cultural robots in the 21st Century. By defining the concept of culture, the potential development of a culture between humans and robots is explored. Based on the cultural values of the robotics developers, and the learning ability of current robots, cultural attributes in this regard are in the process of being formed, which would define the new concept of cultural robotics. According to the importance of the embodiment of robots in the sense of presence, the influence of robots in communication culture is anticipated. The sustainability of robotics culture based on diversity for cultural communities for various acceptance modalities is explored in order to anticipate the creation of different attributes of culture between robots and humans in the future.