The robot in the garden
Subtitle: telerobotics and telepistemology in the age of the Internet
By: edited by Ken Goldberg.
Contributors: Goldberg, Ken.
Series: Leonardo; Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Robotics; Knowledge, Theory of
Description: "The Robot in the Garden initiates a critical theory of telerobotics and introduces telepistemology, the study of knowledge acquired at a distance. Many of our most influential technologies, the telescope, telephone, and television, were developed to provide knowledge at a distance. Telerobots, remotely controlled robots, facilitate action at a distance. Specialists use telerobots to actively explore environments such as Mars, the Titanic, and Chernobyl.

Military personnel increasingly employ reconnaissance drones and telerobotic missiles. At home, we have remote controls for the garage door, car alarm, and television (the latter a remote for the remote).".

"The Internet dramatically extends our scope and reach. Thousands of cameras and robots are now accessible online. Although the role of technical mediation has been of interest to philosophers since the seventeenth century, the Internet forces a reconsideration. As the public gains access to telerobotic instruments previously restricted to scientists and soldiers, questions of mediation, knowledge, and trust take on new significance for everyday life."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The unique phenomenon of a distance / Ken Goldberg; title: Eden by wire : webcameras and the telepresent landscape / Thomas J. Campanella; title: Telepistemology : Descartes's last stand / Hubert Dreyfus; title: Vicariousness and authenticity / Catherine Wilson; title: Information, nearness, and farness / Albert Borgmann; title: Acting at a distance and knowing from afar : agency and knowledge on the Internet  / Jeff Malpas; title: Telerobotic knowledge : a reliabilist approach / Alvin Goldman; title: The speed of light and the virtualization of reality / Martin Jay; title: To lie and to act  : Potemkin's villages, cinema, and telepresence / Lev Manovich; title: Dialogical telepresence and net ecology / Eduardo Kac; title: Presence, absence, and knowledge in telerobotic art / Machiko Kusahara; title: Exposure time, the aura, and telerobotics / Marina Gržinić; title: The history of telepresence : automata, illusion, and the rejection of the body / Oliver Grau; title: Feeling is believing : a history of telerobotics / Blake Hannaford; title: Tele-embodiment and shattered presence : reconstructing the body for online interaction / John Canny and Eric Paulos; title: Being real : questions of tele-identity / Judith Donath; title: Telepistemology, mediation, and the design of transparent interfaces / Michael Idinopulos; title: The film and the new psychology (1945) / Maurice Merleau-Ponty.