UID:
kobvindex_INT0000035
Umfang:
251 pages :
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Illustrations ;
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24 cm.
ISBN:
9789175190396 (pbk.)
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9175190397 (pbk.)
Serie:
Linköping studies in arts and science ; 649
Originaltitel:
Making robots domestic : a queer feminist cartography of anthropomatic kitchen robotics.
Inhalt:
MACHINE-GENERATED ABSTRACT NOTE: "Specific machines furnish the contemporary socio-technical imaginary: 'Robot companions' that supposedly herald the age of robots, an age that is signified by the realization of robot technologies that are taking over labor from humans in every sphere of 'everyday human lives'. How do we want these robot companions to work and look and how do we want to live with these machines? This thesis explores the engineering of relating humans and machines in the specific context of contemporary robotics from a queer feminist technoscience perspective. The ways in which such engineering processes implement 'human-likeness' in realizing the figure of the robot companion are of special concern. At the heart of this study is one robot model: Armar, developed at the Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Participating in the local everyday practices of establishing the efficient robot-human interface in the kitchen laboratory, this study investigates the ways in which Armar is made domestic as a prospective care service provider and companion in the kitchen. This study applies a posthumanist frame of research to investigate the practices of making anthropomatic kitchen robots. It employs an understanding of this making in terms of 'performing the kitchen'. This further entails querying the ways in which norms of 'humanness' are translated into the human-like robot as well as the idea of pre-figured embodied entities with individual properties that meet in the laboratory. Thus, this thesis maps the labors and reciprocities of learning to see and experience this specific robot model as a future human-like companion for humans by analyzing the apparatuses of bodily co-production between human and machine that are at work in the kitchen laboratory."
Anmerkung:
DISSERTATION NOTE: originally submitted as doctoral thesis with the title: Making robots domestic : a queer feminist cartography of anthropomatic kitchen robotics, Technical University Berlin and Linköping University, 2014.
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MACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE: Acknowledgements -- ROBOT COMPANIONS : MACHINES TO WORK AND LIVE WITH? : Introduction : toward an inventory of the robot companion imaginary ; Aim and research questions ; Methodology : a methodological-theoretical framework ; Overview of the chapters -- HISTORICAL DIMENSIONS OF MODERN AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES : Automata in the household : the coming of the machine in kitchens ; Configurations of early AI : primacy of cognition ; Human-machine interfaces : a historical framework -- THE ANTHROPOID IN PUBLIC : INTRODUCING HUMAN-MACHINE RELATIONS IN ANTHROPOMORPHIC CONFIGURATIONS : Entering the laboratories ; Overview of anthropomatics ; Human-machine in the loop : configuring anthropomorphism ; Conclusions : human-machine relations of anthropo-alikeness -- MAPPING HUMAN-MACHINE RELATIONS DURING DEMONSTRATIONS : PERFORMING THE KITCHEN IN THE ROBOTIC LABORATORY : Demonstrations : the theatre of use and theatre of proof of Armar ; A selection of interactional sequences : anthropoid-human bodies-in-interaction ; Conclusions : demonstrations as performing the kitchen -- BODY MODELING IN THE ANTHROPOMATIC KITCHEN : The active head : modeling human-like vision ; Modeling the upper body of the human-like robot ; The 'whole-body model' : patterns of modeling the human-like body ; Conclusions : modeling the robot companion : configuring the human-like body in parts in the kitchen -- BRINGING BODIES INTO MOTION IN THE ANTHROPOMATIC KITCHEN : Current embodiments of the enabled anthropoid ; Equipping the robot with vision as a means of enablement ; Armar III : The Kitchen Boy ; Conclusions : configuring the humanoid kitchen service robot -- CONCLUSIONS : Robot companions : machines to become with? -- Bibliography -- List of figures.
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Academic theses
DOI:
10.3384/diss.diva-118117
URN:
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-118117
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