Prenatal Culture-Making in Robotics

Ivo Häusle

Ivo Häusle studied anthropology at Heidelberg and took his Magister Artium in 2006 with the grade sehr gut. His focus was cognitive anthropology, then a young discipline on the border between anthropology and psychology. The present work grew out of that interest.

He then worked as a research assistant at the Heidelberg University of Education, in physics education and in early science education, and afterwards spent more than eight years as a consultant and developer for business intelligence in the SAP field.

Today he works hands-on with the systems this book is about: he runs his own infrastructure for locally hosted AI models, develops in dialogue with cloud models, and builds software with them - among other things the research archive for the anthropological fieldwork the acknowledgement of this book describes.

The thesis, an abandoned doctorate and a working life are held together by one question: how knowledge comes about, how it is passed on, and what travels along unnoticed.