The robotic production of spatiality: Predictability, partitioning, and connection

S Sumartojo, R Lundberg, D Kulić… - Transactions of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Robots are an increasing presence in our public spaces. Accordingly, in this paper, we
make an argument for the importance of understanding how they produce spatiality by …

Imagining public space robots of the near-future

S Sumartojo, R Lundberg, L Tian, P Carreno-Medrano… - Geoforum, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper we discuss how people understand robots when they imagine relations with
such technologies in near-future settings. We argue that imagination forms an important part …

Redesigning human-robot interaction in response to robot failures: a participatory design methodology

L Tian, P Carreno-Medrano, A Allen… - Extended Abstracts of …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
People are increasingly encountering robots in public spaces. To increase the robustness of
such in-the-wild robotic applications and to achieve their designed outcomes, existing …

Artificial emotional intelligence and the intimate politics of robotic sociality

CR Lynch - Space and Polity, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT This article examines Artificial Emotion Intelligence (AEI) and its application in
social robots. It argues that AEI and social robotics intensify practices of data-capture and …

Concepts for robot geographies

S Sumartojo - A research agenda for digital geographies, 2023 - elgaronline.com
As robots have come off the factory floor and into our homes, schools, hospitals and city
streets, new ways of relating to and making sense of them are necessarily emerging. Around …

Robots in AI urbanism

S Sumartojo - Artificial Intelligence and the City, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter reflects on how robots materialize the AI algorithmic networks and logics that
are permeating our cities. It also considers the everyday compromises, glitches and frictions …

On emptiness: Spacing in media architecture

D Colangelo, Z Melzer - … Companion to Media and the City, 2022 - api.taylorfrancis.com
In the Fall of 2016, roughly 200 abandoned homes located in the State of New York's Capital
Region were transformed into illuminated focal points of a large-scale public art project …