The public are, most likely, unlikely to be afraid of the robots in university labs, the real robots that exist right now, or the sort of robots or AI with which we are already engaging every day. To understand why we are afraid of robots, it is necessary to remind ourselves of what sort of robots it seems that people actually fear. But the robots that continue to dominate the popular imagination-in newspaper headlines, film, television and video games-demonstrate a complex array of anxieties that we harbour towards the very idea of robots, cyborgs, AI and imagined future technologies more generally. Why are we afraid of robots? We are not, of course, only afraid of robots, and there is a growing body of evidence to demonstrate that our attitudes to robots are becoming more positive, or that we are at least more ambivalent in our perceptions.
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