The Robosphere: The Conceptual Expansion of the Human Factors

Dudley-Rowley, Marilyn; Colombano, Silvano

doi:10.2514/6.2004-5842

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“…My search for precedent usages of the word "robosphere" led me to the market-branding of a technology edutainment park in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland. 5 As far as scholarly literature is concerned, I could only find three sources: a speech by Humberto Romesin [36], a journal article by Silvano Colombano [5], and another one jointly authored by Dudley-Rowley and Colombano [6]. The last cited authors were researchers at the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and used the term in their advocacy for the construction of a self-sustaining machine ecology in outer space, i.e.…”

Section: On the Humanoidic Robospherementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite optimistic projections such as those by "Robotics2020" that had predicted that by 2020 robotics will "influence every aspect of work and home", 6 research by Bartneck et al [1] indicates that, with the exception of Japanese society, there is a cautious acceptance of robots as part of the human social environment. They, however, conclude that with contributory factors such as advances in artificial intelligence and the technoscience of social robotics, the lowering of the cost of acquisition of personal robots, and breakthroughs on problems HRI (human-robot interaction) studies are currently seized with, we are bound to progressively share a social-cognitive domain with artificial humanoidic agents in a manner that is autochthonous to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).…”

Section: On the Humanoidic Robospherementioning

confidence: 99%

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On the Robosphere: A Philosophical Explication of the Socio-technical Status of Social Robots

Lamola

2022

Int J of Soc Robotics

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As the Fourth Industrial Revolution advances, socially-situated robots are increasingly not exclusively human-like (i.e. humanoids). They also include socially interactive animaloids. How does this myriad of socially intelligent artefacts emerge as members of a cyber-physical social system in which they are accorded the standing of social robots? And how are we to account for the nature of the universe-of-meaning that emerges from this human-artificial social reality? Utilizing conceptual tools derived from the philosophical fields of phenomenology and “new materialism”, I proffer a theoretic account of robotic sociality. I postulate how robots become members of a cyber-physical social network that is cohabited with sapient humans. Two novel functional constructs are introduced in the process: “the humanoidic” and “the robosphere”. The former illuminates that spontaneous bestowal of sociality on robots is tantamount to a recognition of their social agency. I then demonstrate how this psychical process of the recognition of these humanoidic artefacts instantiates an emergence of a shared human–robot cyber-physical world of relational meaning-making, a robosphere. As a corroboration of the self-manifestation of the robosphere as a concrete social system, it is shown that Industry 4.0 adumbrates Society 4.0, a cybernetic social formation, and the envisioned advance of this into the more technocratic super-smart Society 5.0.

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Section: On the Humanoidic Robospherementioning

confidence: 99%

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On the Robosphere: A Philosophical Explication of the Socio-technical Status of Social Robots

Lamola

2022

Int J of Soc Robotics

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“…It might be as ridiculously costly and technologically difficult to retrieve as the other half of the world's oil supply that stays in the ground in the form of droplets in reservoir rock (Deffeyes 2005, p. 27). 25 Another barrier to commercial feasibility is getting more energy out of the reaction than is put into it to create the conditions for the reaction and to control it. Fusion only occurs at temperatures of several million degrees Celsius, an environment in which the electrostatic repulsion of nuclei is overcome and collisions can occur (claims for cold fusion reactions have not been reproduced).…”

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Globalization of Space - The Astrosociological Approach

Dudley-Flores¹,

Gangale²

2007

AIAA SPACE 2007 Conference &Amp; Exposition

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[Abstract] The primary author coined the phrase "globalization of space" in the 1990s in lectures and presentations, thus the term was conceived in the sociological record. And, though texts and journal articles on sociology are full of studies of the phenomenon of globalization, sociologists are not serious about the study of those aerospatial events that made possible the extent of modern globalization. And, although it is in their purview, they do not keep track of advancements in the aerospace industry that can provide clues to where globalization is taking human societies.On the other hand, the "globalization of space" is referenced by a host of organizations connected to the aerospace community (i.e., NASA, the Air Force Academy, et al.). However, to the reverse of the sociological community, aerospace organizations have little concept of social factors at varying levels of analysis that can provide clues to where human societies are heading in space -a destination that will impact aerospace industries.The authors advocate for taking the astrosociological approach, a merging of social science and aerospace perspectives in order to examine the coming benefits and challenges to the globalization of space. Several topics, near-term to long-term, discussed in this report include:Demands on the aerospace industry by worldwide human populations affected by global warming, the decline side of oil, and natural disasters in increasingly populated areas Ramifications of a return to the Moon The need for a new advanced systems management for "big science" problems The workings of the technoeconomy-technocracy dichotomy Delimitation of the Westphalian nation-state system with the rise of a multi-planet economy Keywords: globalization of space, astrosociological approach, global warming, decline side of oil, decline of American postsecondary education, outer space production, world system of societies, social investments, technoeconomy, technocracy, transnational partnerships, transformation of capital, ecology of capitalism, technological means of production, Westphalian nation-state system, extraglobalization, multilectic, the solar village

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The Robosphere: The Conceptual Expansion of the Human Factors

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On the Robosphere: A Philosophical Explication of the Socio-technical Status of Social Robots

On the Robosphere: A Philosophical Explication of the Socio-technical Status of Social Robots

Globalization of Space - The Astrosociological Approach

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