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This is an unusual book. It brings together perspectives of human activity and thinking that seemingly could not be further apart: science, engineering and technology on the one side, the arts and critical culture studies on the other. Yet, in contemporary robotic art they have been intertwined from the start, living off and nurturing each other. The current book follows this symbiotic relationship. It takes a path that meanders between the territories of the unlikely partners, along the fault lines of the areas, changing its style and viewpoint on the run as the narrative of robotic art makes inevitable.

For this book to come into being it took an unexpected collaboration. About seven years ago, a multidisciplinary, multi-university research project with funding from the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council was initiated at the MARCS Institute at Western Sydney University, Sydney …