Introduction: Situating the Human in Social Robots -- Robot Shift from Industrial Production to Social Reproduction -- In the Company of Robots: Views of Acceptability of Robots in Social Settings -- Perception, Acceptance and the Social Construction of Robots - Exploratory Studies -- Social Robotics in Health Care Service: The Case of Rehabilitation Programmes in Hong Kong -- Intuitive Interaction between Humans and Robots in Work Functions at Industrial Environments: The Role of Social Robotics -- Minimizing the Human? Functional Reductions of Complexity in Social Robotics and their Cybernetic Heritage -- Open Sourcing Social Robotics: Humanoid Artifacts from the Viewpoint of Designers -- The Mobile Phone: An Emotionalised Social Robot -- The Technologicalization of Education in China: A Case Study of the Home-School Communication System -- Fashion Tech and Robotics -- Conclusions.