Android, Assembled is a curated volume that unpacks social robots – not as a monolithic machines but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from bodily features like heads and sensors to the elements we read into them like gender and authority.
Jaime Banks (Ph.D., Colorado State University) is Associate Professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University (New York, USA). Her research focuses on the dynamics and effects of human-machine relations, with an emphasis on social robots, artificial intelligence, and videogame avatars.