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Feeling Machines: Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care

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Availability:In StockContributor:Shawn BenderPublish date:2024-11-19Pages:254
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503641150ISBN-10:1503641155UPC:9781503641150Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Asia, Technology StudiesBook Topic:Cultural & Social, JapanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCAAPYE7YC

In recent years, debates over healthcare have accompanied rapid advances in technology, from the expansion of telehealth services to artificial intelligence driven diagnostics. In this book, Shawn Bender delves into the world of Japanese robots engineered for care. Care robots (kaigo robotto) emerged early in the 21st century, when roboticists began converting assembly line technologies into responsive machines for older adults and people with disabilities. These robots are meant to be felt and programmed to feel. While some greet them with enthusiasm, others fear that they might replace a fundamentally human task. Based on fieldwork in Japan, Denmark, and Germany, Bender traces the emergence of care robots in Japan and examines their impact on therapeutic practice around the world.

Social science scholarship on robotics tends to be either speculative-imagining life together with robots-or experimental-observing robot-human interaction in laboratories or through short-term field studies. Instead, Bender follows roboticists developing technologies in Japan, and travels with the robots themselves into everyday sites of care, tracking the integration of robots into institutional care and the connection of care practice to robotics development. By exploring the application of Japanese robotics across the globe, Feeling Machines highlights the entanglements of therapeutic practice and technological innovation in an age of more-than-human care.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503641150ISBN-10:1503641155UPC:9781503641150Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Asia, Technology StudiesBook Topic:Cultural & Social, JapanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCAAPYE7YC
Shawn Bender is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Dickinson College.
Publisher: Stanford University Press

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