Robotic Knitting Re-Crafting Human-Robot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting

As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards »cobot« technologies, this book provides a technofeminist intervention. Pat Treusch not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can...

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Main Author: Treusch, Pat (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Science studies.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards »cobot« technologies, this book provides a technofeminist intervention. Pat Treusch not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting, but also contributes a tangible example of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-negotiates the boundaries between formalisation and embodiment, craft and high-tech as well as useful and dysfunctional machines. It re-crafts the nature of collaboration between human and robot. This finally entails an alternative mode of relating - a mode that enables an account of careful coboting.
Item Description:Frontmatter i Contents 1 Introduction: Is the Robotic Future Open (for Knitting)? 7 Chapter 1: The Knitter in the Lab 17 Chapter 2: String Figuring Robotic Knitting 67 Chapter 3: Knitting Together 123 Bibliography 145 List of Figures 153 Acknowledgments 155
Physical Description:1 online resource (166 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:3839452031
9783839452035