Fashion Tech and Robotics

Danese, Elda

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-15672-9_11

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“…Another element that characterizes Sophia, and that she shares with several androids or gynoids, is that she is dressed. The importance of social robot dresses or of social robots designed in a fashionable way has been addressed so fare in the debate on social robotics by several scholars [9]. Curiously, Sophia's outfits are not particularly fashionable, and this contrasts with the beauty of her face.…”

Section: The Framing Of Sophiamentioning

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The Rise of the Roboid

Fortunati

Sorrentino

Fiorini

et al. 2021

Int J of Soc Robotics

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The aim of this paper is to analyze a new phenomenon that is emerging in the field of social robotics, which we name as “roboid”. The roboid is a robot that is still at the prototype stage but claims to be fully functioning. We argue that the roboid has been created to handle a new phase between the prototyping and the commercialization of robots. In this intermediate phase, a wide-spread promotional campaign is organized by robot producers, with the purpose of understanding the desires, needs, and suggestions of potential customers. We present the first case of a a highly human-like roboid named Sophia. We carried out the visual analysis of the content and the content-agnostic factors of a selection of 15 videos uploaded on YouTube on the social robot Sophia and a qualitative analysis of the textual component of these videos to investigate a selected part of the promotional campaign on Sophia. Furthermore, on the 23,810 comments that users have posted on these videos, we applied quantitative analysis to explore the observers’ opinions about Sophia. Results highlight that: (1) a powerful but potentially ridiculous narrative has been used to build the rhetoric of Sophia; (2) the comments on the videos are too poor to enable a co-construction of this social robot with the audiences (implicit intention of Hanson Robotics); (3) the introduction of the roboid might be a very good solution to reduce the uncertainties that may occur when a new robot moves directly from the laboratory to the market.

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Section: The Framing Of Sophiamentioning

confidence: 99%