A Complicated Love Story? Human Robot Interaction in Popular Culture: A Case Study on Technology-Linked Emotions (2022)
Poser, Stefan (Author)
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Volume: 27
Issue: 1
Pages: 36-52
Edition Details: Special Issue: Tools to Generate or to Solve Crises? Perspectives on Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Popular representations of anthropomorphic robots and their descriptions as something similar to humans shaped the image of robots and AI to an astonishing degree. Emotions play an important role in this process. This article is dedicated to popular representations of robots and emotions, linked to them. Its focus is on a widely distributed 1960s youth book on robots, written by the Viennese author Karl Bruckner. Based on analysing the emotions linked to Bruckner’s robots and the robots’ way of acting, it will become clear that the author both made use of an existing popular image of robots and contributed to the development of this image. This article argues that the popular image of anthropomorphic robots hinders the adoption of robots for occupational purposes: the advantages and dangers of employing robots are overwhelmed by our emotional response to humanoid robots as beings, which are similar to us.
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