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NatureCulture. 2019, 5, p. 69-94

Materials of Imagination : On the Limits and the Potentials of the Humanoid Robot

Kemiksiz, Asli

NatureCulture

英語

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2019

Before developing into a category of technologies, the robot was an imagined figure in science fiction (SF). The gap between imaginary robots and their real-life counterparts creates a distinctive opportunity to examine how science fiction is embedded in technoscience and vice versa. This paper explores how materials of imagination––facts, fictions, beliefs, rationales, aesthetics, norms, etc.––shape emerging Japanese humanoid robots. Using Donna Haraway’s image of string figures to consider the intimate relations between SF, technoscience and science studies, I also identify and break down some powerful, conventional imaginaries—ranging from the companion robots to the Laws of Robotics—in order to elucidate how the Japanese humanoid robot came to be what it is. I end by arguing that science fiction thought experiments provide materials of imagination with potentials for opening up current robotics to imaginaries beyond current experimental systems.

10.18910/98520

98520

Materials of Imagination : On the Limits and the Potentials of the Humanoid Robot

Kemiksiz, Asli

NatureCulture

英語

2019

NatureCulture

5

69

94

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/98520

10.18910/98520

https://doi.org/10.18910/98520