Chapter 1 Introduction: Situating the Human in Social Robots

Chapter 3 In the Company of Robots: Views of Acceptability of Robots in Social Settings

Chapter 4 Perception, Acceptance, and the Social Construction of Robots—Exploratory Studies

Chapter 5 Social Robotics in Health-Care Service: The Case of Rehabilitation Programmes in Hong Kong

Chapter 6 Intuitive Interaction Between Humans and Robots in Work Functions at Industrial Environments: The Role of Social Robotics

Chapter 7 Minimizing the Human? Functional Reductions of Complexity in Social Robotics and Their Cybernetic Heritage

Chapter 8 Open Sourcing Social Robotics: Humanoid Artifacts from the Viewpoint of Designers

Chapter 9 The Mobile Phone: An Emotionalised Social Robot

Chapter 10 The Technologicalization of Education in China: A Case Study of the Home–School Communication System

Chapter 11 Fashion Tech and Robotics

Chapter 12 Conclusions