The Politics of Robots

Care, Conflict and Imaginaries
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3721-4
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Against a backdrop of promises for advancement, along with utopian and dystopian readings, this book examines how robots for health and care are reshaping our society and challenging our assumptions about human–machine relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vallès Peris, Núria

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wissenschaftsethik, Technikethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Prologue – Miquel Domènech

2. Introduction: An Empirical Approach to Controversies Around Care Robots

Part 1: Do Robots Have Politics?

3. The Regime of Legitimation of Care Robots

4. The Myth of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

5. Materialized Morality and Artefacts’ Prescription of Action

Part 2: Matters of Care in Artefacts' Design

6. Fragmentation of Care in Robotics

7. A Robot Embedded in the Network (REN)

8. Different Interpretative Repertoires of the Publics

Part 3: An Ethico-Political Proposal for Robotics

9. A Consensus-Dissensus Empirical Methdoology

10. Practices for Designing Robots for Care with Care

11. The Radical Imaginary of Robots for the Common Good

12. Final Remarks: The Democratization of Machines’ Development

Über Autor(innen)

Núria Vallès Peris is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center (IDEAI) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.