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This introductory chapter reviews the emergence, classification, and contemporary examples of cultural robots: social robots that are shaped by, producers of, or participants in culture. We review the emergence of social robotics as a field, and then track early references to the terminology and key lines of inquiry of Cultural Robotics. Four categories of the integration of culture with robotics are outlined; and the content of the contributing chapters following this introductory chapter are summarised within these categories.
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Dunstan, B.J., Silvera-Tawil, D., Koh, J.T.K.V., Velonaki, M. (2016). Cultural Robotics: Robots as Participants and Creators of Culture. In: Koh, J., Dunstan, B., Silvera-Tawil, D., Velonaki, M. (eds) Cultural Robotics. CR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9549. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42945-8_1
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