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Co-creating Knowledge with Robots: System, Synthesis, and Symbiosis




AuthorsHautala Johanna, Jauhiainen Jussi S

PublisherSPRINGER

Publication year2022

JournalJournal of knowledge economy

Journal name in sourceJOURNAL OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Journal acronymJ KNOWL ECON

Number of pages21

ISSN1868-7865

eISSN1868-7873

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-022-00968-1

Web address https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13132-022-00968-1

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/174900725


Abstract
In the contemporary robotizing knowledge economy, robots take increasing responsibility for accomplishing knowledge-related tasks that so far have been in the human domain. This profoundly changes the knowledge-creation processes that are at the core of the knowledge economy. Knowledge creation is an interactive spatial process through which ideas are transformed into new and justified outcomes, such as novel knowledge and innovations. However, knowledge-creation processes have rarely been studied in the context of human-robot co-creation. In this article, we take the perspective of key actors who create the future of robotics, namely, robotics-related students and researchers. Their thoughts and actions construct the knowledge co-creation processes that emerge between humans and robots. We ask whether robots can have and create knowledge, what kind of knowledge, and what kind of spatialities connect to interactive human-robot knowledge-creation processes. The article's empirical material consists of interviews with 34 robotics-related researchers and students at universities in Finland and Singapore as well as observations of human-robot interactions there. Robots and humans form top-down systems, interactive syntheses, and integrated symbioses in spatial knowledge co-creation processes. Most interviewees considered that robots can have knowledge. Some perceived robots as machines and passive agents with rational knowledge created in hierarchical systems. Others saw robots as active actors and learning co-workers having constructionist knowledge created in syntheses. Symbioses integrated humans and robots and allowed robots and human-robot cyborgs access to embodied knowledge.

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