Challenging Sociality An Anthropology of Robots, Autism, and Attachment /

• Main Author: Richardson, Kathleen (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI,
• Subjects: Technology-Sociological aspects.; Clinical psychology.; Artificial intelligence.; Robotics.; Automation.; Developmental psychology.; Science and Technology Studies.; Clinical Psychology.; Artificial Intelligence.; Robotics and Automation.; Developmental Psychology.

This book explores the development of humanoid robots for helping children with autism develop social skills based on fieldwork in the UK and the USA. Robotic scientists propose that robots can therapeutically help children with autism because there is a "special" affinity between them and...