Cultural robotics · since 2015
Robots don’t just reflect our culture, they change it.
Every interaction between a person and a robot is shaped by language, gesture, heritage and values. Cultural robotics treats robots as cultural actors: they embody meaning, tell stories and mediate relationships.
The record so far
A field built in editions.
- 2013The conjecture: The Culture of Robotics and Robotics in Culture, IJARS
- 20151st International Workshop, IEEE RO-MAN, Kobe. Proceedings: LNAI 9549
- 2023Social Robots and Their Emergent Cultural Ecologies, Springer
- 20252nd International Workshop, ACM/IEEE HRI, Melbourne. 15 posters. LNAI 16404
- 2026Special Session SS01 at ICSR 2026, 1–4 July