The article proposes a different way of thinking about the relationship between social robotics and law, starting from Dumouchel’s theory of emotions and his analysis of human interactions. The original social and constructivist dimension of emotions is linked to affective neuroscience and to the theory of mirror neurons, to then arrive at Vico’s rhetorical and constructivist methodology, intended as a theoretical alternative to modern legal positivism. This critique is finally linked to Ricca’s intercultural chorological perspective and Sequeri’s affective turn, with the aim of reconfiguring the relationship between the visible and the invisible as a critique of modernity and its myths.