Hi Christian and all, Cynthia Breazeal’s work at MIT might be of some help, though I’m unsure if she provides a specific typology. Hope this helps, Peter On Monday, June 14, 2021, Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs@uti.at> wrote:

Hello,

does anyone know about publications where there is a typology of robots, i.e. not unjustified lists of types of robots (e.g. https://www.allonrobots.com/types-of-robots/ is not what I am interested in = lists without theory), but a distinction of different types of robots based on a combination of theoretical criteria of distinction presented e.g. in the form of a table or figure with at least two dimensions ?

Thank you for sharing any references you might have come across featuring such typologies...

Kind regards

Christian

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Dear Christian, AoIRists, ICT-ists, In addition to several other excellent suggestions this query has evoked, let me gingerly suggest this article by Trovato et al., as it presents a carefully developed taxonomy of theomorphic robots, covering examples from a strong range of diverse religious traditions (the Abrahamic religions, Buddhism, and Shinto, among others): Trovato G, De Saint Chamas L, Nishimura M, Paredes R, Lucho C, Huerta-Mercado A, Cuellar F (2019) Religion and Robots: Towards the Synthesis of Two Extremes. Int J of Soc Robotics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-019-00553-8 I will confess to stumbling over the idea of a "theomorphic" robot more than once when I first encountered this article, and I'm certain the highly secular-rational among us will do so as well. Equally certain: attempting to map the epistemological, ontological, and/or metaphysical assumptions in play in these worldviews vis-a-vis more secular ones is, um, an interesting exercise. But whatever one's personal convictions, etc., may be - for the very large portions of the world's populations who remain / become "religious" in one way or another, for better and for worse, these devices are increasingly important, and hence need to be taken on board, I think, in our efforts to understand, e.g., what Human-Machine Communication might mean in these contexts (so the work of Andrew Guzman, Steve Jones, and many, many others in the HMC world). They are obviously also of direct relevance in Digital Religion (e.g., Heidi Campbell and Pauline Cheong, as a start, who are editing the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion). In any event, happy reading and good luck! - charles ess On 14/06/2021 22:03, Christian Fuchs wrote:

Hello,

does anyone know about publications where there is a typology of robots, i.e. not unjustified lists of types of robots (e.g. https://www.allonrobots.com/types-of-robots/ is not what I am interested in = lists without theory), but a distinction of different types of robots based on a combination of theoretical criteria of distinction presented e.g. in the form of a table or figure with at least two dimensions ?

Thank you for sharing any references you might have come across featuring such typologies...

Kind regards

Christian

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