In press

Good Enough Ethics by Design: Alternative Digital Reality and AI. (Monograph) Palgrave Macmillan. Contracted, due for publication 2026. With Kathleen Bryson and Jessica Sutherland.

How to Do Good Enough Ethics by Design in VR/AR/XR/AI and Robotics. Palgrave Macmillan. (Monograph) Contracted, due for publication 2027. With Kathleen Bryson.

Challenging Relations? THE UNDIFFERENTIATED WE of humans and robots and AI. (Chapter) In Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. (eds) David Zeitlyn, William Kelly and Janiki Srinivasan. Due for publication 2027.

Relations with no one: the rise and rise of attachment figures for sale in robots and AI. (Chapter) In Philosophical Foundations and Practical Implications of Digital Humanism” (working title). (eds) Julian Nida-Rümelin & Nathalie Weidenfeld. Due for publication 2027.

Single-authored monographs

2025 Sex Robots: The End of Love, Cambridge: Polity Press

2018 Challenging Sociality: An Anthropology of Robots, Autism, and Attachment. Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI, New York, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.  

2015 An Anthropology of Robots and AI: Annihilation Anxiety and Machines. New York and London: Routledge

Sole-edited journal

2017 The Human Relationship in the Ethics of Relational Robotics: A Call to Martin Buber’s I and Thou in “I”Robot? Rethinking the I-You Relation through Dialogical Philosophy in the Ethics of AI and Robotics. AI & Society Special Issue.

Co-edited

2023 Manmade Woman: The Sexual Politics of Sex Dolls and Sex Robots. Richardson K and Odlind, C (eds). Social and Cultural Studies of Robots & AI, Palgrave Macmillan. 

Journals

2025 Designing ethics or manipulating it: Who needs ethics in a multi-agent virtual space? Bryson, Kathleen and Richardson, Kathleen. Conference proceedings accompanying podium talk at the 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Application Technologies (AIAT 2025), Kyoto, Japan, December 2025. 

2025 Five Reality Types: The Embedded Ethicist in VR and Mixed-Reality. Bryson, K., Sutherland, J. and Richardson, K., In Recent Trends of AI Technologies and Virtual Reality: Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR 2024) (Vol. 432, p. 129). Springer Nature.

2025 Breaking the mould of Social Mixed Reality–State-of-the-Art and Glossary. Bieńkiewicz, M., Ayache, J., Charalambous, P., Becchio, C., Corragio, M., Taetz, B., De Lellis, F., Grotta, A., Server, A., Rammer, D. and Kulpa, R..  arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.23454. (open access).

2025 An ethical framework for emerging technologies: the TEAeM approach. Bhalla, N., Brooks, L., Cannizzaro, S. and Richardson, K., 2025. Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, 35(1), pp.1-16.

2024 Refining and generalising ethical guidelines for digital Extended Reality (XR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI): a participatory approach including experts’ and publics’ views. Bhalla, N., Cannizzaro, S., Brooks, L., Adomaitis, L. and Richardson, K., 2024, December.  In Global Congress on Emerging Technologies (GCET-2024) (pp. 51-57). IEEE.

2024 A Method for Analysing Ethical Issues in Emerging Technologies–the TechEthos Approach (TEAeM). Brooks, L., Canizzaro, S., Bhalla, N. and Richardson, K., 2024.

2023 Developing proposals for ethically informed operational guidelines for climate engineering technologies. In IFIP Joint Working Conference on the Future of Digital Work: The Challenge of Inequality (pp. 28-49). Brooks, L., Cannizzaro, S., Bhalla, N. and Richardson, K., 2023, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

2023 Revolutionary Robots. Richardson, K. In Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies (pp. 1-7). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

2023 extended reality of socio-motor interactions: Current trends and ethical considerations for mixed reality environments design. IeAyache, J., Bieńkiewicz, M., Richardson, K. and Bardy, B. In Companion Publication of the 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 154-158).

2023 Introduction: The end of sex robots – for the dignity of women and girls. Richardson, K. In Odlind, C and K, Richardson in Richardson K, and Odlind, C (eds) Man-Made Women: The Sexual Politics of Sex Dolls and Sex Robots. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 

2023 The end of sex robots: Porn robots and representational technologies of women and girls. Odlind, C and Richardson, K. In Richardson K, and Odlind, C (eds) Man-Made Women: The Sexual Politics of Sex Dolls and Sex Robots. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 

2022 Ethics of climate engineering: Don’t forget technology has an ethical aspect too, Brooks, L., Cannizzaro, S., Umbrello, S., Bernstein, M.J. and Richardson, K.. International Journal of Information Management, 63, p.102449.

2021 The Complexity of Otherness: Anthropological Contributions to Robots and AI. Richardson, K. Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2019     The Business of Ethics, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Richardson, K. In Cyborg Future: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (ed. Teresa Heffernan), Palgrave Macmillan. 

2018 Robot Enhanced Therapy for Children with Autism (DREAM): A Social Model of Autism. Richardson, K., Coeckelbergh, M., Wakunuma, K., Billing, E., Ziemke, T., Gomez, P., Vanderborght, B. and Belpaeme, T. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 37(1), pp.30-39.

2017 Editorial “I”Robot? Rethinking the I-You Relation through Dialogical Philosophy in the Ethics of AI and Robotics. Richardson, K. AI & Society Special Issue.

2016 Property relations – Is property a person? Extending the Rights of Property Owners Through the Rights of Robotic Machines. Richardson, K. AAAI press e-proceedings for Machine Ethics and Machine Law:  Interdisciplinary perspectives on moral and legal issues in artificial agents, Nov 2016.

2016 Are Sex Robots as Bad as Killing Robots? Richardson, K. In Seibt, J., Nørskov, M., Schack Andersen, S. (eds). What Social robots Can and Should Do, 290 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. IOS Press. pp. 27 – 31.

2016 The Robot Intermediary: Mechanical analogies and autism. Richardson, K. Anthropology Today. Vol 32, No 5. pp. 18-20.

2016 Sex Robot Matters: Slavery, the Prostituted, and the Rights of Machines. Richardson, K. In IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 35(2), pp.46-53.

2016 Technological Animism: The Uncanny Personhood of Humanoid Machines. Richardson, K. In Social Analysis Katherine Swancutt and Mireille Mazard (eds). Special Issue on Animism: The Animistic Turn. Social Analysis, 60(1), pp.110-128. 

2015 The Asymmetrical ‘Relationship: Parallels Between Prostitution and the Development of Sex Robots. Richardson, K. In ACM Digital Library as a special issue of the ACM SIGCAS newsletter. SIGCAS Computers & Society, Sept 2015, Vol. 45, No. 3 290-293.

2011 Robots to the rescue? Richardson, K. Engineering & Technology,6(4), pp.52-54.

2010 Disabling as Mimesis and Alterity: Making Humanoid Robots at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Richardson, K. Etnofoor, September 2010, volume 22, issue 1, 2010, pp. 75-90.

2009 Rebranding the robot. Richardson, K. Engineering & Technology, 4(6), pp.42-44.

2009 Archiving the Self? Facebook as biography of social and relational memory. Richardson, K and S, Hessey. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society. 2009 V 7. 1. pp. 25 – 38. 

2002 Communicating Environmentalism in Amazonia. Richardson, K. In C. Gandelsonas, (ed). Communicating Development. London: Intermediate Technology Publishing