Social Robots: A Bridge Between the Two Cultures

This paper aims to show the possible and actual synergies between social robotics sociology. The author argues that robots are one of best fields inquiry provide a bridge two cultures — represented by sciences humanities on hand, natural engineering other. To achieve this result, quantitative qualitative analyses implemented. By using scientometric tools like Ngram Viewer, search engines such as Google Scholar, hand calculations, detects emergence term-and-concept ‘social robots’ in its current use, absolute relative frequencies term scientific literature period 1800–2008, frequency distribution publications including 2000–2019, magnitude which is associated ‘sociology’ or ’social work’. Finally, employing analysis focusing exemplary cases, shows different ways implementing researches relate sociology robotics, from theoretical instrumental point view. It argued sociologists engineers could work team observe, analyze, describe interaction humans robots, research techniques frames provided In turn, knowledge can be used build more effective humanlike robots.
 Keywords: sociology, work, meta-analysis, scientometrics