Cultural Robotics: The Culture of Robotics and Robotics in Culture

TLDR

Current robots are developing cultural attributes influenced by developers' values and learning abilities, shaping the emerging concept of cultural robotics. The study explores how defining culture and ensuring diverse acceptance modalities can foster a sustainable culture between humans and robots. The authors examine diverse acceptance modalities to anticipate future cultural attributes between robots and humans. The investigation reveals that as robots evolve from social to cultural entities, their embodied presence is expected to influence communication culture.

Abstract

In this paper, we have investigated the concept of “Cultural Robotics” with regard to the evolution of social into cultural robots in the 21st Century. By defining the concept of culture, the potential development of a culture between humans and robots is explored. Based on the cultural values of the robotics developers, and the learning ability of current robots, cultural attributes in this regard are in the process of being formed, which would define the new concept of cultural robotics. According to the importance of the embodiment of robots in the sense of presence, the influence of robots in communication culture is anticipated. The sustainability of robotics culture based on diversity for cultural communities for various acceptance modalities is explored in order to anticipate the creation of different attributes of culture between robots and humans in the future.