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Making Companion Species at a Robotics Lab
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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Patrick Kho can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/09/making-companion-species-at-a-robotics-lab/. About the post: Approaching robots as companion species, we find the significance of storytelling in robot experiments. We find that science fiction fundamentally shapes the research questions asked, while research findings pose serious considerations regarding humans. In robotics research, then, humans and robots are constantly re-constructed, re-shaped, and re-defined by one another.
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