Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine

Investigate how robotics have become part of our everyday lives — Design is indispensable if robots are to become a visible reality and not remain hidden in washing machines, cars, and cash machines. This updated edition of Vitra's 2017 publication presents recent developments in robotics and digitization, and clarifies where we already encounter intelligent machines and where we may find them in the near future: in industry, in the military and in everydays settings—nurseries, retirement homes, in our bodies and in the cloud; when shopping and having sex; in video games and, of course, in film, literature and art. In a series of in-depth essays and interviews, experts such as the science-fiction author Bruce Sterling, novelist Douglas Coupland, architect Philip Beesley, and the design duo Dunne & Raby explore the question of how we deal with our environment becoming increasingly digital, smarter, and more autonomous. The texts highlight our often ambivalent relationship to new tec