Politics of Robots
Care, Conflict and Imaginaries

By (author) Núria Vallès Peris

ISBN13: 9781529237214

Imprint: Bristol University Press

Publisher: Bristol University Press

Format: Hardback

Published: 01/01/2026

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Description
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
  • Ethics & moral philosophy
  • Impact of science & technology on society
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
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