Bibliograph

Robo Sapiens Japanicus, Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation

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Robo Sapiens Japanicus, Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Robo Sapiens Japanicus

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation

Summary

Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in mass and social media throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus, Jennifer Robertson casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos that misrepresent robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourse of human-robot relations in Jap

Table Of Contents

Subvention -- Title -- Copyright -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Authora#x80; #x99; s Notes -- 1. Robot Visions -- 2. Innovation as Renovation -- 3. Families of Future Past -- 4. Embodiment and Gender -- 5. Robot Rights vs. Human Rights -- 6. Cyborg-Ableism beyond the Uncanny (Valley) -- 7. Robot Reality Check -- Notes -- Bibliography

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