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  • We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? The author 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 science communication to media discourse, and from the theoretical perspectives of STS to the cognitive sciences. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, and backed by a wealth of empirical material, the author shows how scientists, engineers, journalists - and everyone else - can face the challenge of robot technology appearing "a little bit alive" with a reflexive and yet pragmatic stance. (xsd:string)
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  • 2021 (xsd:gyear)
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  • 2021 (xsd:gyear)
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  • 10.14361/9783839455609 ()
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  • 978-3-8394-5560-9 ()
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  • 2703-1551 ()
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  • More Than Machines? The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology (xsd:string)
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  • urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-88506-6 ()