Subject objects

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4367204
AutoresL Suchman (0000-0001-9752-4684, Lancaster University)
Año2011
Volumen12
Número2
Páginas119-145
Fecha de publicación2011-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700111404205
OpenAlexW4235238836
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas55
Referencias citadas32

The focus of my inquiry in this article is the figure of the Human that is enacted in the design of the humanoid robot. The humanoid or anthropomorphic robot is a model (in)organism, engineered in the roboticist's laboratory in ways that both align with and diverge from the model organisms of biology. Like other model organisms, the laboratory robot's life is inextricably infused with its inherited materialities and with the ongoing - or truncated - labours of its affiliated humans. But while animal models are rendered progressively more standardised and replicable as tools for the biological sciences, the humanoid robot is individuated and naturalised. Three stagings of human- robot encounters (with the robots Mertz, Kismet and Robota respectively) demonstrate different possibilities for conceptualising these subject objects, for the claims about humanness that they corporealise, and for the kinds of witnessing that they presuppose

Biology · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Human–computer interaction · Humanoid robot · Organism · Physics · Robot · Sociology · Subject (documents · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Artificial Intelligence · Philosophy