Why Collaborative Robots Must Be Social (and even Emotional) Actors.
In this article, I address the question whether or not robots should be social actors and suggest that we do not have much choice but to construe collaborative robots as social actors. Social cues, including emotional displays, serve coordination functions in human interaction and therefore have to...
| Published in: | Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 270 - 290 |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2019
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