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  • Existing frameworks present tensions between viewing robots as social agents and understanding their integration into human activities.

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  • To critically examine the construction of humanoid robots as social agents at the intersection of STS and social robotics.
  • To propose a new criterion for sociality in artifacts: the capacity for dialogical action ('voice').
  • To re-evaluate existing analyses of human-robot interaction through the lens of dialogicality and embodiment.

Main Methods:

  • Critical reinterpretation of a reported episode of human-robot interaction analyzed by Morana Alač.
  • Application of Gibsonian affordances theory to understand the role of 'body' in social interactions.
  • Analysis of dialogicality as a key element for an artifact to be considered authentically social.

Main Results:

  • The study challenges the notion that resemblance to humans or attributed agency alone confers sociality on robots.
  • Dialogical capacity, or having a 'voice', is identified as a necessary condition for an artifact to be genuinely social.
  • The analysis highlights the importance of embodiment and affordances in enabling dialogical interactions.

Conclusions:

  • Authentic sociality in artifacts, particularly humanoid robots, hinges on their ability to engage in dialogical action.
  • A shift in analytical focus towards dialogicality and embodiment is needed to better understand human-robot sociality.
  • This perspective offers a distinct contribution to both social robotics and STS by redefining social agency in artifacts.