»Hello Robot. Design between Human and Machine« investigates how robotics has become an
integral part of our everyday lives. As these intelligent machines emerge from their
hidey-holes in washing machines cars and ATMs we are getting used to encountering them
almost everywhere: in industry in the military and in everyday settings at nurseries and
retirement homes in our bodies and in the cloud when shopping and when having sex in video
games and of course in films and in literature. The book also shows that design in its
traditional function as a mediator is indispensable for robots to participate in our day-to-day
activities. In a series of in-depth essays and interviews experts including science-fiction
author Bruce Sterling and the design duo Dunne & Raby explore what an increasingly digital
environment means for us humans. They highlight our often ambivalent relationship to new
technologies and discuss the opportunities and challenges they pose for us as individuals and
as a society. »Hello Robot.« broadens the scope of debate to include the ethical and political
questions arising from technological advances in robotics today and confronts us with the
contradictions that often underpin the answers to these questions. This second updated edition
of the book (first published in 2017) includes a number of new projects as well as an
introductory text presenting important recent developments in robotics and digitalization.
