“Industry 4.0” marks the advent of a new wave of industrial robotics designed to bring increased automation to “extreme” touch practices and enhance productivity. This article presents an ethnography of touch in two industrial settings using fourth generation industrial robots (a Glass Factory and a Waste Management Center) to critically explore the social and sensorial implications of such technologies for workers. We attend to manifestations of dirt and danger as encountered through describing workers’ sensory experiences and identity formation. The contribution of the article is two-fold. The first is analytical through the development of three “filters” to grasp the complexity of the social and sensorial dynamics of touch in situ while tracing dispersed mediating effects of the introduction of novel technologies. The second is empirical, teasing out themes embedded in the sociosensorial dynamics of touch that intersect with gender, ethnicity, and class and relate to the technological mediation of touch.

“工业 4.0”标志着新一波工业机器人的到来，旨在为“极端”触摸实践带来更高的自动化并提高生产力。本文介绍了使用第四代工业机器人（玻璃工厂和废物管理中心）在两个工业环境中进行的触摸民族志，以批判性地探讨此类技术对工人的社会和感官影响。我们通过描述工人的感官体验和身份形成来关注污垢和危险的表现。这篇文章的贡献是双重的。第一个是通过开发三个“过滤器”进行分析，以掌握现场触摸的社会和感官动态的复杂性，同时追踪新技术引入的分散中介效应。二是经验主义，