What is it about?

Introducing a new framework to consider the roles that clothing will play in the future interactions and adoption of humanoid robots.

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Why is it important?

It is critical to create a taxonomy of clothing interactions for emerging humanoid robotics as a means to grow a critical discourse on the functional, psychological and creative impacts that will define success, adoption and adaptation.

Perspectives

Understanding how human to robot, robot to robot, robot to human interactions can be enhanced, mediated and influence meaningful interaction it critical in the growth/application of emerging technologies. Who decides, designs, and selects clothing in these interactions? How will emerging clothing designs for robots influence human fashion and vice-versa?

J.R. Campbell
Kent State University

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This page is a summary of: Robot Fashion: The Social Psychology of Robot Clothing, March 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3757279.3788821.
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