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The Politics of Robots

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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 assumption...
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  • 01 October 2026
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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.
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Price: $119.95
Pages: 192
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publication Date: 01 October 2026
ISBN: 9781529237214
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Impact of science and technology on society, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethical issues: scientific, technological and medical developments
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Núria Vallès Peris is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center (IDEAI) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

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