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Janina Loh is a philosopher based at the University of Vienna whose work sits at the intersection of robot ethics, machine ethics, and posthumanist theory. She has established herself as one of the field's most rigorous critical voices, with her research spanning the ethical dimensions of artificial agents, the nature of moral responsibility, and the societal implications of robotic technologies in public and private life. Her most cited work, "On Building Responsible Robots" (2018, 38 citations), and the closely related "Responsibility and Robot Ethics: A Critical Overview" (2019, 36 citations), demonstrate her commitment to grounding robot ethics in careful philosophical analysis — tracing the genealogy of responsibility and mapping the discipline's foundational questions with scholarly precision. Her contributions extend beyond theory: she has explored robots in social and political spaces, examined the moral status of robots as potential rights-holders, and interrogated whether technologies like dating apps and sex robots can be considered feminist. Loh's engagement with emotional human-robot relationships and inclusive posthumanist frameworks reveals a thinker unafraid to challenge conventional boundaries between human and machine. With publications in both English and German, including her widely read *Roboterethik*, she bridges academic and public discourse, making her an essential voice in contemporary debates about technology, ethics, and what it means to be human.