TY - JOUR
T1 - Religion and Robots
T2 - Towards the Synthesis of Two Extremes
AU - Trovato, Gabriele
AU - De Saint Chamas, Loys
AU - Nishimura, Masao
AU - Paredes, Renato
AU - Lucho, Cesar
AU - Huerta-Mercado, Alexander
AU - Cuellar, Francisco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature B.V.
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - Humanity has been dreaming of robots since the ancient times. Historically, robots — originally called automata — have been the products of technology and faith. The relationship between robots and religion has disappeared in the last two centuries, as science and religion parted ways, and have typically been seen in opposition. Nowadays, as robots and AI are going to spread in human society, new possibilities and new ethical challenges are on the horizon. In this paper, we summarise the state of the art in robotics and religion, and propose a taxonomy for robot morphology that takes into account the factor of religion. The taxonomy encompasses the novel concept of ‘theomorphic robots’, referred to robots that carry the shape of something divine.
AB - Humanity has been dreaming of robots since the ancient times. Historically, robots — originally called automata — have been the products of technology and faith. The relationship between robots and religion has disappeared in the last two centuries, as science and religion parted ways, and have typically been seen in opposition. Nowadays, as robots and AI are going to spread in human society, new possibilities and new ethical challenges are on the horizon. In this paper, we summarise the state of the art in robotics and religion, and propose a taxonomy for robot morphology that takes into account the factor of religion. The taxonomy encompasses the novel concept of ‘theomorphic robots’, referred to robots that carry the shape of something divine.
KW - Design
KW - History
KW - Religion
KW - Social robots
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U2 - 10.1007/s12369-019-00553-8
DO - 10.1007/s12369-019-00553-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85065461902
SN - 1875-4791
VL - 13
SP - 539
EP - 556
JO - International Journal of Social Robotics
JF - International Journal of Social Robotics
IS - 4
ER -