Social Robots: Approaches and Conceptions in the Perspective of the Humanities Research
The article presents the ﬁndings of the research project on determination of theoretical basis of social robotics in social science and the humanities. The author suggests to consider the fundamental principles of digital culture, i.e. technological imperative, rule of machines, technological anthropological deﬁ cit and Preobrazhensky syndrome, as the basis for social robotics. The author also turns to the issue of cultural and technological determinism, artiﬁcial intelligence, ethics and various aspects of social interaction of robots and humans. He outlines the necessity to turn to social-critical discourses.