“Robots can be said to have their own culture precisely because they don’t need to copy our sociologisms in order to be social,…

“Robots can be said to have their own culture precisely because they don’t need to copy our sociologisms in order to be social, although what they do in their own social realm may not easily map on to things we do in our social realm.”

–Stuart Geiger, the ethnography of robots.  (viaalgopop)