The course will examine the multidisciplinary field of robotics using an anthropological lens. We will explore how robots, artificial intelligence, artificial life and cyborgs, reflect and reveal the social arrangements and cultural practices that created them. What are the cultural ideas that permeate the robot manufacturing process? How do various robots challenge social and cultural perceptions about human identity and the relationship between humans and the posthuman? What is a social robot? Do robots have agency? Are robots a danger to humanity? Through laboratory tours, meetings with researchers in the field and critical reading and analysis of texts, students will discuss these questions in a variety of areas related to popular culture (literature and cinema), imagination and fiction, the world of work, ageing, power, gender and the politics of the cyborg body, care, intimacy, sexuality, identity, etc.