Overview
Offers a unique interdisciplinary approach of the cultural reception of Japanese robotics through a theatre and performance studies perspective
Addresses the growing field of ‘social robotics’ in Japan
Analyses the performative relation between Japanese culture and robots
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“Australian scholar Yuji Sone … attempts a cultural study of robots in Japan, specifically “performing robots” as opposed to robots as servants or functional machines. He takes readers through the history of Japan’s relationship with robots ... cutting to the heart of specific examples of “Japanese” robot culture. His book is welcome and timely, not least because robots will undoubtedly figure into the ways that Tokyo promotes itself to the world during the 2020 Olympics.” (William Andrews, The Japan Times, February 11, 2017)
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Book Title: Japanese Robot Culture
Book Subtitle: Performance, Imagination, and Modernity
Authors: Yuji Sone
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52527-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53216-9Published: 19 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52527-7Published: 17 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 265
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Culture, Theatre and Performance Studies, Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence