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obotic nittin
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1.2 Situated Co-Engineering: An Interdisciplinary Account
Introduction: Is the Robotic Future Open (for Knitting)?
Our worlds of the Global North are increasingly inhabited by a number of visual and textual narratives of a robot-technologies-driven future that seems to start already now. Or, in John Urry’s (2016, 1) words, “Futures are now everywhere.” Here, I am thinking of popular headlines in which the arrival of the robots is announced, especially, but not exclusively, in online media. These headlines report not only that “the robots are coming,” but also what they are coming for. In most cases, they depict the robotic arrival as hostile and that the robots are coming “to steal our jobs”.’ At the same time, there also exists an almost equivalent number of headlines that advertise a robotic future in which the robots are coming to serve as ‘our’ somewhat human-like companions that will be beneficial to ‘us’ and help ‘us’ in different social scenarios—from shopping to elderly and infant care.? Headlines might diverge on what the robots are coming for (hostile takeover or beneficial assistance), but what seems to be indisputable is that the robots are coming.
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