Degrees of Freedom: On Robotics and Social Justice

Why the field of robotics tends to reinforce white patriarchal systems of power—and how roboticists can work to change these systems.

In Degrees of Freedom, Tom Williams explores critical questions at the intersection of robotics and social justice. He considers the ways in which roboticists design their robots’ appearance, how robots think and act, how robots perceive people, and the domains into which robots are deployed. The book highlights not only the ways roboticists tend to reinforce ...