Robotic Knitting: Re-Crafting Human-Robot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting

166 Pages·2020·6.063 MB·English

by  Pat Treusch

Pat Treusch
Robotic Knitting
Science Studies
Pat Treusch (Dr. phil.) works as a feminist science and technology studies scholar
at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZIFG) and the
Department of General and Historical Educational Sciences at the Technical Uni-
versity Berlin.
Pat Treusch
Robotic Knitting
Re-Crafting Human-Robot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting
Robotic Knitting is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and supported by
MTIengAge (funded by the BMBF) and by DiGiTal (funded by the Berliner Chan-
cengleichheitsprogramm BCP).
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Contents
Introduction:IstheRoboticFutureOpen(for Knitting)?............................ 7
Chapter1:TheKnitterintheLab...................................................17
1.1 DiscursiveCertainties?EngagingwithCobotDiscourses ......................28
1.2 SituatedCo-Engineering:AnInterdisciplinaryAccount
ofEngagingwiththeCobot................................................... 49
Chapter2:StringFiguringRoboticKnitting........................................ 67
2.1 String1:KnittingandtheDigital—Diffracting Dichotomous Relations...........68
2.2 String2:TheKnittingHandsandtheKnittingGrippers.........................88
Chapter3:KnittingTogether..................................................... 123
3.1 StringFiguringStorylines&SociomaterialConfigurations.................... 124
3.2 CarefulCobotingthroughHandKnitting–andBeyond .........................141
Bibliography...................................................................... 145
ListofFigures.................................................................... 153
Acknowledgments................................................................ 155