Robots as Social Actors
Robot stories have been around for ages. In 1495 Leonardo Da Vinci designed the Mechanical Knight, a humanoid automation for the battlefield. Early cases of “social robots” in its broadest meaning is given by the ancient author Ovid (43 BC–17 AD) in his Metamorphoses (Transformations). Pygmalion, in disgust of women’s imperfection, focused all his passion […]




