TY - GEN
T1 - Introducing 'theomorphic robots'
AU - Trovato, Gabriele
AU - Cuellar, Francisco
AU - Nishimura, Masao
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/12/30
Y1 - 2016/12/30
N2 - As robots are going to spread in human society, the study of their appearance becomes a critical matter when assessing robots performance and appropriateness for an application and for the employment in different countries, with different background cultures and religions. Robot appearance categories are commonly divided in anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and functional. In this paper, we offer a theoretical contribution by introducing a new category, called 'theomorphic robots', in which robots carry the shape and the identity of a supernatural creature or object within a religion. Discussing the theory of dehumanisation and the different categories of supernatural among different religions, we hypothesise the possible advantages of the theomorphic design for different applications.
AB - As robots are going to spread in human society, the study of their appearance becomes a critical matter when assessing robots performance and appropriateness for an application and for the employment in different countries, with different background cultures and religions. Robot appearance categories are commonly divided in anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and functional. In this paper, we offer a theoretical contribution by introducing a new category, called 'theomorphic robots', in which robots carry the shape and the identity of a supernatural creature or object within a religion. Discussing the theory of dehumanisation and the different categories of supernatural among different religions, we hypothesise the possible advantages of the theomorphic design for different applications.
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U2 - 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2016.7803429
DO - 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2016.7803429
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85010202077
T3 - IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
SP - 1245
EP - 1250
BT - Humanoids 2016 - IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 16th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2016
Y2 - 15 November 2016 through 17 November 2016
ER -