Against a backdrop of promises for advancement, along with utopian and dystopian readings, this book examines how robots for health and care are reshaping our society and challenging our assumptions about human–machine relations.
1. Prologue – Miquel Domènech
2. Introduction: An Empirical Approach to Controversies Around Care Robots
Part 1: Do Robots Have Politics?
3. The Regime of Legitimation of Care Robots
4. The Myth of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
5. Materialized Morality and Artefacts’ Prescription of Action
Part 2: Matters of Care in Artefacts' Design
6. Fragmentation of Care in Robotics
7. A Robot Embedded in the Network (REN)
8. Different Interpretative Repertoires of the Publics
Part 3: An Ethico-Political Proposal for Robotics
9. A Consensus-Dissensus Empirical Methdoology
10. Practices for Designing Robots for Care with Care
11. The Radical Imaginary of Robots for the Common Good
12. Final Remarks: The Democratization of Machines’ Development
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