Negotiating anthropomorphism in the Ai-Da robot

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8098822
AutoresBojana Romić (0000-0002-6485-3710, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen14
Número10
Páginas2083-2093
Fecha de publicación2021-07-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Social Robotics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1875-4791 • E-ISSN: 1875-4805
EditorialSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s12369-021-00813-6
OpenAlexW3188149294
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas39

The central interest of this paper is the anthropomorphic social robot Ai-Da (Aidan Meller Gallery/Oxford University), perceived as an actor in the interplay of cultural and representational gestures. These gestures determine how this robot is presented—that is, how its activities are articulated, interpreted and promoted. This paper criticises the use of a transhistorical discourse in the presentational strategies around this robot, since this discourse reinforces the so-called “myth of a machine”. The discussion focuses on the individuation and embodiment of this drawing robot. It is argued that the choice to provide Ai-Da with an evocative silicone face, coupled with an anthropomorphic body, is a socio-political decision that shapes public imaginaries about social robots in general

Aesthetics · Attunement · Epistemology · Gesture · Individuation · Mobile robot · Negotiation · Politics · Presentational and representational acting · Robot · Robot control · Social robot · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Psychology · Social Robot Interaction and HRI · Artificial Intelligence · Communication · Philosophy