Description: Living with Robots recounts a foundational shift in robotics, from artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, and foreshadows an inflection point in human evolution. As robots engage with people in socially meaningful ways, social robotics probes the nature of the human emotions that social robots are designed to emulate.
Brief description: Paul Dumouchel is Full Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan.
Review Quotes: Living with Robots is a timely and fascinating examination of social robots that exist in the real world, have bodies, and interact with human beings. While addressing the practical functions of social robots, at its heart the book is deeply philosophical. The authors invite us to reflect on the nature of human beings, mind, and sociability, as well as the human-robot dynamics of emotional relationships. This gives rise to novel and important engagement with moral and political questions, from quality of life to military applications.--Takanori Shibata, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology