World & Society

What is a robot?

Émission

Tribu
16 September 2015

Marc Atallah

Lettres, UNIL

What is a robot and what does it represent in our imagination? What are these metal beings that populate science fiction stories? The robot is above all a metaphor for the human being, and above all it tells us something about the image we have of ourselves.

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