Meaningful futures with robots : designing a new coexistence Soon robots will leave the factories and make their way into living rooms supermarkets and care facilities. They will cooperate with humans in everyday life taking on more than just practical tasks. How should they communicate with us Do they need eyes a screen or arms Should they resemble humans Or may they enrich social situations precisely because they act so differently from humans Meaningful Futures with Robots: Designing a New Coexistence provides insight into the opportunities and risks that arise from living with robots in the future anchored in current research projects on everyday robotics. As well as generating ideas for robot developers and designers it also critically discusses existing theories and methods for social robotics from different perspectives ethical design artistical and technological and presents new approaches to meaningful human robot interaction design Design fiction the future of robots needs imagination Ronda Ringfort Felner Robin Neuhaus Judith Dörrenbächer Marc Hassenzahl Cramers funeral service for Androids Uwe Post Googly eyes Marc Hassenzahl.