Daniele Lugli

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Daniele Lugli is a leading voice in the emerging field of robot geographies, where they investigate how robotic technologies reshape our social and spatial worlds. Their work uniquely bridges new materialism and human geography to understand robots not as mere tools, but as lively, agential participants in public life. In their highly cited 2021 paper "Lively robots: robotic technologies in COVID-19" (37 citations), Lugli developed the concept of robotic 'liveliness' to explain how robots gained new capacities and social roles during the pandemic. Their 2022 work "The robotic production of spatiality" (17 citations) further established their reputation by identifying three core robotic logics—predictability, partitioning, and connection—that govern how robots produce and transform space. These contributions have positioned Lugli as a key thinker in understanding the ethical and geographical implications of automation. By revealing the subtle ways robots impose order on human environments, Lugli’s research offers essential insights for anyone studying the intersection of technology, society, and place.