The privacy implications of social robots are far-reaching and concern both informational
and physical privacy. In this contribution we address the topic of healthcare robots and
privacy. We use actor network theory (ANT) to shed light on the privacy implications of
healthcare robots from a specific theoretical point of view. ANT is a descriptive, constructivist
approach that takes into account the agency of objects, concepts and ideas as well as the
relationality of technology and the social. It has been applied to complex technological …