Challenging sociality an anthropology of robots, autism, and attachment /

This book explores the development of humanoid robots for helping children with autism develop social skills based on fieldwork in the UK and the USA. Robotic scientists propose that robots can therapeutically help children with autism because there is a "special" affinity between them and...

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Main Author: Richardson, Kathleen,
Other Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 152 pages).
Series: Social and cultural studies of robots and AI.
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