Studying Robots, between Science and the Humanities.
In this paper I explore the figure of the robot as an object of study, and one that specifically requires an integration of methodologies from both the humanities and the sciences. Traditionally, the figure of the robot has been regarded very differently in these two realms: in the sciences, it is r...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Humanities Vol. 5; no. 8; pp. 165 - 182 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
Dec2007
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