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Moving Robots from Industrial Sectors to Domestic Spheres: A Foreword

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This foreword analyses how in the shift from industrial sectors to social and domestic sectors the form of robots is actually subjected to great changes. Furthermore, it reports some recent data on robot diffusion, implicitly inviting researchers to reflect on the trends of robot diffusion that give the precise indication to focus on the material sphere of the housework.

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Fortunati, L. (2016). Moving Robots from Industrial Sectors to Domestic Spheres: A Foreword. In: Esposito, A., Jain, L. (eds) Toward Robotic Socially Believable Behaving Systems - Volume II . Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 106. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31053-4_1

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