Developments in the field of social robotics have increasingly played with the boundaries between human and machine, using remote or tele-presence technological innovations as a way to mediate or revolutionize humanmachine interactions. This paper explores one such development, namely the roboticization of care labour in the realm of education, and the ways in which it brokers relationships between human and non-human interaction. Drawing on fieldwork in the Philippines and South Korea and using the telepresence robotic innovation of Engkey as a case study, this paper describes practices that represent the convergence of technology, politics, and intimacies that shape the complexities of contemporary forms of labour migration, articulations of gendered and racialized “skill,” and changing relationships between human and non-human. The paper argues that these relationships are intentionally produced mediations of care: gendered and racialized hierarchies that produce new forms of affective labour and sociality that are governed by modes of simultaneous disembodiment and embodiment, immobility and mobility, and marketized statecraft through vocabularies of innovation and exploitation. These technologically produced mediations of care have implications for how we understand the connections between human and machine and how labour and sociality are ultimately brokered in the context of a neoliberal and capitalist world order.

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护理中介：机器人时代的劳动中介

社交机器人领域的发展越来越多地利用人与机器之间的界限，使用远程或远程呈现技术创新作为调解或彻底改变人机交互的一种方式。本文探讨了这样一种发展，即教育领域护理劳动的机器人化，以及它在人类与非人类互动之间建立关系的方式。本文借鉴菲律宾和韩国的实地调查，并以 Engkey 的远程呈现机器人创新作为案例研究，描述了代表技术、政治和亲密关系融合的实践，这些实践塑造了当代劳务移民形式的复杂性，性别化和种族化的“技能”，以及人类与非人类之间不断变化的关系。该论文认为，这些关系是有意产生的护理中介：性别化和种族化的等级制度产生了新形式的情感劳动和社会性，这些新形式受到同时脱身和具身、不动和流动的模式以及通过创新和剥削词汇的市场化治国之道的支配。 . 这些技术产生的护理中介对我们如何理解人与机器之间的联系以及在新自由主义和资本主义世界秩序的背景下最终如何协调劳动和社会具有影响。不动和流动，以及通过创新和开发的词汇市场化治国之道。这些技术产生的护理中介对我们如何理解人与机器之间的联系以及在新自由主义和资本主义世界秩序的背景下最终如何协调劳动和社会具有影响。不动和流动，以及通过创新和开发的词汇市场化治国之道。这些技术产生的护理中介对我们如何理解人与机器之间的联系以及在新自由主义和资本主义世界秩序的背景下最终如何协调劳动和社会具有影响。