We are happy to invite you to the ABRI Lunch Seminar The Vision-Reality Gap: Field Bifurcati on in the Evolution of Robotics (1962-2005) by Dr. Mia Chang (ESCP Bu siness School, Paris, France) organized by ABRI and the KIN Center fo r Digital Innovation.
The seminar will take place on Tuesday,
April 7th, from 12:00 to 13:00 (HG-06A37).
This is a lunch s
eminar; please register your attendance by accepting/declining your e
mailed invitation by Friday, April 3rd at the latest (for catering).
Abstract
Prior work in organization theo
ry has shown that, during the emergence of a field, heterogeneous com
munities coalesce around a shared vision, often accompanied by height
ened expectations and hype. Yet, we still have a limited understandin
g of what happens when such a vision fails and hype collapses. We inv
estigate this question through an extensive set of archival data and
oral histories on the emergence of the field of robotics from 1962 to
2005. We show that, initially, the industrial and research community
entered the field with a near-term vision “automation” and dista
nt vision “autonomy,” respectively. The field coalesced around an
intermediate vision of adaptive automation. As the perceived gap bet
ween envisioned futures and present realities—i.e. the vision-reali
ty gap—shrank with the first proof of commercial viability, short-t
erm-oriented and long-term-oriented peripheral communities entered th
e field, pouring resources. However, as the intermediate vision did n
ot come to fruition after a few years, the vision-reality gap widened
, leading to disillusionment. Attempts by the industrial and research
communities to close it unexpectedly led to a bifurcation of the fie
ld into two extremes: automation-focused robots without autonomy and
autonomous robots without automation, with a decline in the intermedi
ate vision of adaptive automation. We contribute to the literature by
showing how temporal dynamics among diverse communities shape field
evolution, and in particular, how efforts to close the vision-reality
gap can unexpectedly spur field bifurcation. We also extend the temp
orality literature by theorizing novel mechanisms such as temporal co
mpression, decoupling, and the elasticity of the vision-reality gap.<
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DESCRIPTION: The seminar will take place on Tuesday, April 7th, from 1
2:00 to 13:00 (HG-06A37).
This is a lunch seminar; please re
gister your attendance by accepting/declining your emailed invitation
by Friday, April 3rd at the latest (for catering).
Abstract
Prior work in organization theory has shown that
, during the emergence of a field, heterogeneous communities coalesce
around a shared vision, often accompanied by heightened expectations
and hype. Yet, we still have a limited understanding of what happens
when such a vision fails and hype collapses. We investigate this que
stion through an extensive set of archival data and oral histories on
the emergence of the field of robotics from 1962 to 2005. We show th
at, initially, the industrial and research community entered the fiel
d with a near-term vision “automation” and distant vision “auto
nomy,” respectively. The field coalesced around an intermediate vis
ion of adaptive automation. As the perceived gap between envisioned f
utures and present realities—i.e. the vision-reality gap—shrank w
ith the first proof of commercial viability, short-term-oriented and
long-term-oriented peripheral communities entered the field, pouring
resources. However, as the intermediate vision did not come to fruiti
on after a few years, the vision-reality gap widened, leading to disi
llusionment. Attempts by the industrial and research communities to c
lose it unexpectedly led to a bifurcation of the field into two extre
mes: automation-focused robots without autonomy and autonomous robots
without automation, with a decline in the intermediate vision of ada
ptive automation. We contribute to the literature by showing how temp
oral dynamics among diverse communities shape field evolution, and in
particular, how efforts to close the vision-reality gap can unexpect
edly spur field bifurcation. We also extend the temporality literatur
e by theorizing novel mechanisms such as temporal compression, decoup
ling, and the elasticity of the vision-reality gap. We are happy to i
nvite you to the ABRI Lunch Seminar The Vision-Reality Gap: Field Bif
urcation in the Evolution of Robotics (1962-2005) by Dr. Mia Chang (E
SCP Business School, Paris, France) organized by ABRI and the KIN Cen
ter for Digital Innovation.
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