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 Advanced technologies, robots in particular have influenced all aspects of human beings’ lives. Wherever we take a look, we can simply observe their deep influences, from industry to schools, from households to hospitals and medical centers. The trend of using robots as assistants to human beings is not only limited to industrial and medical centers anymore since the socio robotic researchers initiated their studies on the social and psychological aspects of human robot interactions. Their struggles aimed at promoting this idea that a social robot can communicate and interact with human beings and integrate into human beings social and physical lives. This research is a complement of this new major to review how social robots, especially anthropomorphic ones can become psychiatrists of schizophrenic patients who severely suffer of social and communication problems, to understand how designing and programming anthropomorphic robots can change the interplays of human and non human agencies in the world, and to know how apparatus can be an instrument for scientists and technology designers to interfere the subjectivity of patients in robotic knowledge makings, as this project aims at designing and programming an anthropomorphous robot based on the social and communication needs of schizophrenic patients.  Mental illnesses are affecting the lives of many people, their thinking, feelings, mood, ability to relate to others, and daily functioning. One of these illnesses is schizophrenia that has diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life. Individuals with schizophrenia are mostly suffering from hallucination that has alienated them from the real world. This symptom has resulted to the social isolation of schizophrenic patients and many communication troubles or difficulties in their real social interactions. The social and communication problems of schizophrenic patients cannot be solved by taking drugs, maybe drugs reduce the symptoms of this mental illness but they cannot recover their social and communication conditions. So the problem of treating this illness by medicines has pushed many researches from various fields to propose effective psychiatric treatments of the schizophrenia. This research, which is done under the socio robotic and science technology studies subject aims to use advanced technologies especially anthropomorphic robots to treat or recover the social isolations of individuals with schizophrenia to know how advanced technologies can change the biologically or socially caused illnesses or whether schizophrenia can be socially constructed or deconstructed.   This is undeniable that women and men are biologically and psychically are different, but any differences in socially constructed dimension of genders have been always in disputes during different time periods. Almost, most of the topics and researches on the feminist studies are related to studying the differences between the genders of human beings, women and men. One of these differences is related to science and technologic, which reviews the interplays of feminist issues to science and technology. This paper is also related to this new field; that how applying gender issues in designing and programming advanced technologies especially robots can help treating and recovering mental illnesses, schizophrenic patients in particular. As studies have shown that schizophrenia patients suffers from the lack of social and emotional support by their families and most of them are unable to get married, this project will show how much designing an anthropomorphic robots with the appearance of a girl for treating male patients and a boy for female patients would be helpful in psychiatric measures of schizophrenia. So this project will examine how applying gender to nonmaterial agencies will change the lives of human agencies.
 * Robopscyhotherapy: a reality of the existence of anthropomorphic robots on psychiatric clinics **
 * Keywords: advanced technologies, robots, social robots, anthropomorphic, schizophrenic, subjectivity, knowledge making. **
 * Schizophrenia and Social Isolation: Drugs or Psychiatry **
 * Keywords: schizophrenia, medicine, social isolation, robots, social construction **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Female robots, gender studies and psychology **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Key words: gender, anthropomorphic robot, feminism, schizophrenia **