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Record Nr.

UNINA9910831847603321

Autore

Treusch Pat <p>Pat Treusch, Syddansk Universitet, D&auml; nemark </p>

Titolo

Robotic Knitting : Re-Crafting Human-Robot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting / Pat Treusch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020

ISBN

9783839452035

3839452031

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 p.)

Collana

Science Studies

Disciplina

629.8924019

Soggetti

Robots

Technofeminsim

Cobots

Interdisciplinarity

AI

Technology

Gender

Science

Sociology of Technology

Gender Studies

Sociology of Science

Body

Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    i Contents    1 Introduction: Is the Robotic Future Open (for Knitting)?    7 Chapter 1: The Knitter in the Lab    17 Chapter 2: String Figuring Robotic Knitting    67 Chapter 3: Knitting Together    123 Bibliography    145 List of Figures    153 Acknowledgments    155

Sommario/riassunto

As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards »cobot« technologies, this book provides a technofeminist intervention. Pat Treusch not only shows how both the fields of



technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting, but also contributes a tangible example of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-negotiates the boundaries between formalisation and embodiment, craft and high-tech as well as useful and dysfunctional machines. It re-crafts the nature of collaboration between human and robot. This finally entails an alternative mode of relating – a mode that enables an account of careful coboting.