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"Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in the mass media and social media throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus, Jennifer Robertson casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos that misrepresent actual robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourses of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual robots--humanoids, androids, animaloids--are "imagineered" in ways that reinforce the conventional sex/gender system and political-economic status quo. In addition, Robertson interrogates the notion of human exceptionalism as she considers whether "civil rights" should be granted to robots. Similarly, she juxtaposes how robots and robotic exoskeletons reinforce a conception of the "normal" body with a deconstruction of the much-invoked Theory of the Uncanny Valley"--Provided by publisher.

"This book provides a forum for the cybernetics field in critical emerging technologies, including research into design, engineering, and technological aspects of cyborg creation and existence alongside humankind for issues in their potential acceptance, participation, policy, governance, and requisite socialization between individualization and corporate, global, networked, mechanized human and humanized machine experiences"--

"Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in the mass media and social media throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus, Jennifer Robertson casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos that misrepresent actual robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourses of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual robots--humanoids, androids, animaloids--are "imagineered" in ways that reinforce the conventional sex/gender system and political-economic status quo. In addition, Robertson interrogates the notion of human exceptionalism as she considers whether "civil rights" should be granted to robots. Similarly, she juxtaposes how robots and robotic exoskeletons reinforce a conception of the "normal" body with a deconstruction of the much-invoked Theory of the Uncanny Valley"--Provided by publisher

The field of robotics is remarkably wide, with many social settings now entailing and increasingly requiring the use of robots to support a variety of human activities. Unsurprisingly, robots' form and shape, their level of intelligence and intended purpose can vary significantly depending on the relevant industry.1 Domestic robots are already a reality in a growing number of family homes. They include both humanoid robots which support those in need (such as the elderly, people with disabilities or children) and robots for household consumer markets, including domestic vacuum cleaners and grass-trimmers. Humanoid robots only account for a small fraction of the industry, with robotic arms for industrial automation being instead widespread.2

Intro -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Challenging Sociality -- 1.1 Autism and the Machine -- 1.2 Absence of the Social -- 1.3 Pronouns and Relationality -- 1.4 Machine Sociality -- Theory of Mind and Mindblindness -- Extreme Male Brain and Systemising -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Autism, Social Attachment and Things -- 2.1 Autism Sociality -- 2.2 299.00 Autistic Disorder -- 2.3 Autism and Robots -- 2.4 Theatre and Robots -- 2.5 Anthropology and the Social -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: The Experiment: The Effectiveness of a Humanoid Robot for Helping Children Develop Social Skills -- 3.1 Between the Social and Asocial -- 3.2 Robots -- 3.3 The School -- 3.4 The Protocols -- Method -- Analysis -- Play Assessment, Session Content and Schedule -- 3.5 The Experiment -- 3.6 The Results -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Echo and Narcissus and Pronoun-Reversal -- 4.1 The Myth of the Egocentric Child -- 4.2 Narcissus: From Myth to Sexual Pathology to Politics of the Individual -- 4.3 Echolalia, Pronoun-Reversal and I-You Interrelatedness -- 4.4 Robots to Humans as the Lake Is to Narcissus -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Attachment Theory and Autism -- 5.1 Bonds and Ties -- 5.2 Mother-Love to Mother-Hate -- 5.3 Children of the Wild -- 5.4 The Machine as Surrogate Mother -- 5.5 Attachment to Products -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Autism and the Machine -- 6.1 The Artificial Human -- 6.2 Man as a Machine -- 6.3 Autism as a Machine-State -- 6.4 Robot as Analogy to Autism -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Critical Autism Studies and Robot Therapy -- 7.1 A New Horizon -- 7.2 Labels and Language of Autism -- 7.3 It and Things -- 7.4 Robot Therapy -- 7.5 Recognition -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Terminating the Machine -- 8.1 The Social and Cultural Studies of Robots -- 8.2 I and Thou.

19th International Workshop of Physical Agents (WAF). Madrid (22-23 Noviembre 2018) ; ABSTRACT: This paper presents a personalized contingency feedback adaptation system that aims to encourage infants aged 6 to 8 months to gradually increase the peak acceleration of their leg movements. The ultimate challenge is to determine if a socially assistive humanoid robot can guide infant learning using contingent rewards, where the reward threshold is personalized for each infant using a reinforcement learning algorithm. The model learned from the data captured by wearable inertial sensors measuring infant leg movement accelerations in an earlier study. Each infant generated a unique model that determined the behavior of the robot. The presented results were obtained from the distributions of the participants' acceleration peaks and demonstrate that the resulting model is sensitive to the degree of differentiation among the participants; each participant (infant) should have his/her own learned policy. ; This work was supported by NSF award 1706964 (PI: Smith, Co-PI: Matarić). In addition, this work was developed during an international mobility program at the University of Southern California being also partially funded by the European Union ECHORD++ project (FP7-ICT-601116), the LifeBots project (TIN2015-65686-C5) and THERAPIST project (TIN2012-38079).

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- About the Contributors -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter One - Identity, Originality and Hybridity in Jurisprudence and Social Theory: An Introduction -- Introduction -- The Lie of Animistic Earth Jurisprudence? Precolonial African Universities and the Foundations of Pan-African Jurisprudence -- Becoming Posthuman? Humanoid Robots and the Implications for Labour and Family Jurisprudence -- Outline of the Chapters -- References -- Chapter Two - Beyond Eurocentric Human Rights Jurisprudence and Towards Animality? Humanoid Robots and the Decomposition of African Humanism and Personhood -- Introduction -- Humanism, Posthumanism and African Ubuntu/Chivanhu -- Is Animistic Jurisprudence Indigenous or Is It Merely a Fad to Control Africans? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Three - Colonialism, the Theft of History and the Quest for Justice for Africa -- Introduction -- Why the Theft of History as the Analytical Framework? -- Mechanisms Used to Execute and Sustain the Theft of History -- Ontological, Economic and Epistemological Thefts and the Loot Committee -- Procrastination is not the Thief of Time: Of Stolen African Times -- The Elephants and their Drinking Water Sources -- Rat Receiving Cats' Education -- On the Theft of Democracy from Africa -- Africa's Stolen University -- The Western University in Africa -- The Cartographical Misrepresentation of Africa as Theft -- Re-historicisation as Restorative Justice for Africa -- Towards the Decolonial Corner: The Ten Interventions and Africa's Quest for Restorative Justice -- References -- Chapter Four - Revisiting Traditional African Land Ownership Practices Using Indigenous Knowledge Lenses: The Case of the Haya in Tanzania -- Introduction -- Contextual Issues: Pre-colonial African Indigenous Land Ownership

[EN] This work presents a robotic-based solution devised to automate the product packaging in industrial environments. Although the proposed approach is illustrated for the case of the shoe industry, it applies to many other products requiring similar packaging processes. The main advantage obtained with the automated task is that productivity could be significantly increased. The key algorithms for the developed robot system are: object detection using a computer vision system; object grasping; trajectory planning with collision avoidance; and operator interaction using a force/torque sensor. All these algorithms have been experimentally tested in the laboratory to show the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed approach. ; This work has been partly supported by Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of the Spanish Government [Grant No. RTC201654086 and PRI-AIBDE-2011-1219], by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) of the German Government (Projekt-ID 54368155) and by ROBOFOOT project [Grant No. 260159] of the European Commission. ; Perez-Vidal, C.; Gracia, L.; De Paco, J.; Wirkus, M.; Azorin, J.; De Gea, J. (2018). Automation of product packaging for industrial applications. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing. 31(2):129-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/0951192X.2017.1369165 ; S ; 129 ; 137 ; 31 ; 2 ; Bay, H., Tuytelaars, T., & Van Gool, L. (2006). SURF: Speeded Up Robust Features. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 404-417. doi:10.1007/11744023_32 ; Bonert, M., Shu, L. H., & Benhabib, B. (2000). Motion planning for multi-robot assembly systems. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 13(4), 301-310. doi:10.1080/095119200407660 ; Davis, S., Tsagarakis, N. G., & Caldwell, D. G. (2008). The initial design and manufacturing process of a low cost hand for the robot iCub. Humanoids 2008 - 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots. doi:10.1109/ichr.2008.4755929 ; DISSANAYAKE, M. W. M. G., & GAL, J. A. (1994). Workstation ...

KASPAR est un robot humanoïde interactif de la taille d'un enfant. Il a été développé par The Adaptive Systems Research Group à l'université du Hertfordshire, pour constituer un outil éducatif ou thérapeutique facilitant le développement de la communication et les compétences interactives chez les enfants avec autisme. Kaspar a été créé pour aider les enseignants et les parents à soutenir les enfants de multiples façons. On l'a utilisé dans un cadre d'études de cas avec environ 170 enfants (il s'agissait d'études longitudinales où chaque enfant interagissait avec le robot durant plusieurs semaines voire plusieurs mois) à la fois à l'école et en famille. L'article présente les types d'initiation à l'interaction que peut développer le robot avec les enfants avec autisme sur la base d'activités simples. Il montre le rôle de médiateur social que peut prendre le robot en encourageant les enfants à interagir avec d'autres personnes (des enfants et des adultes). Les résultats des exemples d'études de cas montrent l'aide que peut apporter le robot en brisant l'isolement, en encourageant l'usage du langage, en médiatisant les interactions entre enfants ou avec les adultes, en aidant à maîtriser les jeux collaboratifs, en apportant un complément au travail scolaire par un apprentissage cognitif de base concret et incarné menant à l'émergence d'une conscience des rapports entre cause et effet.

This article analyzes representations of privilege and social inequality in the science fiction TV series Äkta människor (Real Humans) (2012–2013), produced by Sweden's national public TV broadcaster (SVT). Set in the near future or a parallel present, Real Humans explores an alternative version of Sweden in which more and more human workers are replaced by a type of humanoid robot called "Hubots". Reviewers and scholars have interpreted the series in light of various contemporary social and political issues, many of which pertain to not only technology, but also social inequality amongst humans. This article connects Real Humans specifically to the recent increase in paid domestic labor in Scandinavia, and argues that the series deals with moral conflicts associated with being privileged and outsourcing household and care work. This is especially evident in the series' representation of Inger Engman, a Swedish mother, wife, and full-time employee, and her ambivalent relationship to her household and care work Hubot Mimi. Through Inger and Mimi, Real Humans explores moral and affective dimensions of privilege, and brings to mind concerns expressed by parents in Scandinavia who employ domestic workers and au pairs. Inger's conflicted relationship to Mimi also evokes the concept of maternal guilt. As I show, Real Humans is one of several contemporary Scandinavian narratives that use the au pair figure to comment on social and gender inequality in a globalized age, yet stands out in its debt to the science fiction genre. In sum, Real Humans is not only a rare and noteworthy example of a Scandinavian science fiction TV series—it also invites the viewer to reflect on the connections between privilege, social (in)equality, and work in contemporary Scandinavia.