We reappraise the idea of colliding with robots, moving from a position that tries to avoid or mitigate collisions to one that considers them an important facet of human interaction. We report on a soma design workshop that explored how our bodies could collide with telepresence robots, mobility aids, and a quadruped robot. Based on our findings, we employed soma trajectories to analyse collisions as extended experiences that negotiate key transitions of consent, preparation, launch, contact, ripple, sting, untangle, debris and reflect. We then employed these ideas to analyse two collision experiences, an accidental collision between a person and a drone, and the deliberate design of a robot to play with cats, revealing how real-world collisions involve the complex and ongoing entanglement of soma trajectories. We discuss how viewing collisions as entangled trajectories, or tangles, can be used analytically, as a design approach, and as a lens to broach ethical complexity.

翻译：我们重新审视了与机器人碰撞的理念，从试图避免或减轻碰撞的立场转向将其视为人机交互的重要维度。本文报告了一项躯体设计工作坊，探索了人体如何与远程呈现机器人、移动辅助设备及四足机器人发生碰撞。基于研究发现，我们运用躯体轨迹将碰撞解析为包含同意、准备、启动、接触、涟漪、刺痛、解缠、残迹与反思等关键过渡阶段的扩展体验。随后，我们运用该框架分析了两类碰撞体验：人与无人机的意外碰撞，以及为与猫互动而设计的机器人，揭示了现实世界中的碰撞如何涉及躯体轨迹复杂且持续的纠缠。我们探讨了将碰撞视作纠缠轨迹（即缠结）的三种应用价值：作为分析方法、设计策略以及审视伦理复杂性的视角。