Robotic Knitting: Re-Crafting Human-Robot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting

✍ Scribed by Pat Treusch; Technische Universität Berlin

• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 166
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards »cobot« technologies, this book provides a technofeminist intervention. Pat Treusch not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting, but also contributes a tangible example of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-negotiates the boundaries between formalization and embodiment, craft and high-tech as well as useful and dysfunctional machines. It re-crafts the nature of collaboration between human and robot. This finally entails an alternative mode of relating - a mode that enables an account of careful coboting.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction: Is the Robotic Future Open (for Knitting)?
Chapter 1: The Knitter in the Lab
Chapter 2: String Figuring Robotic Knitting
Chapter 3: Knitting Together
Bibliography
List of Figures
Acknowledgments