Do robots have race?: Race, social construction, and HRI

Robert Sparrow

doi:10.1109/MRA.2019.2927372

Do robots have race? Race, social construction, and HRI

Robert Sparrow

Philosophy

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In a paper presented at the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2018), Bartneck and colleagues (myself included) argued that people attribute race to humanoid robots [1]. The experiments we conducted suggested that people are willing to identify robots as being of different races when asked and that, at least when confronted with the shooter bias test [2], people also behave in ways that suggest they attribute race to robots. This article joins a small number of other articles in providing evidence that people attribute racial and/or ethnic identities to robots [3], [4]. While the methods we used in our research have come in for some criticism [5], the article has at least highlighted this question as a topic for future research.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	144-150
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
Volume	27
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2019.2927372
Publication status	Published - Sept 2020

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