Publish at May 15 2017 Updated September 27 2023
Japan's civilizing influence takes many forms; in administration, for example, Kanban, Lean, Just-in-time, are all management methods of Japanese origin that have spread worldwide.
On the cultural front, Japanese cartoons, starting with the ancestor Ultraman, are now broadcast internationally and have paved the way for Pokemon, Mario Bros, Transformers, Ninja Turtles and other Japanese heroes of the video game world, supported by a quasi-industrial production of manga. A blend of culture and industry that resonates even in the world of robotics.
Love me
One of the challenges of robotics remains its social acceptance. That machines can help us is a positive argument, but that we have to deal with their capricious demands or abysmal stupidity represents a real limit to their spread.
On the one hand, it's a question of making robots friendlier, and on the other of making us more open to their presence. Japan has understood this. The robotic inculturation process has begun and is spreading across the board. Asimo is well known, but what about Geminoid F, the avatar of a real human, Pepper, who attends a middle school, Aiko Chihira, who knows sign language, Hanako, a typical patient for a dentist, Tipron, the home projector robot and even Hal, who proposes human-robot hybridization; you think movement, it moves.
If experiments are numerous, their culmination leads to practical tasks and services such as Panasonic's Hospi, which relieves nurses of the task of dispensing medication in hospitals, or the imposing Robear, which takes on the task of carrying patients from their beds to their wheelchairs, a task performed around 40 times a day by nurses and a frequent source of professional injury, or Toyota's Human Support Robot , which can directly assist patients or anyone who needs help on demand.
Homes for the elderly are in demand for robotic support, but it's on the younger side that the effort is most promising. Remember Tamagotchi? Taking care of a virtual pet is not far from taking care of a robot. The number of Japanese robots designed for children is staggering. From penguins to programmable robots, the panoply on display augurs a wealth of possibilities, including at daycare and school.
Proximity
The performance of Japanese robots is astonishing: bushido robots, ping-pong players, musicians and even orchestra players, the precision and flexibility of these machines are real. Add a little artificial intelligence and networking, and we come to a new conception of our relationship with these machines. We begin to see their presence as potentially acceptable.
They are inexorably approaching, and some of us will soon be faced with unprecedented choices, such as whether or not to expose our children to the care of a robot, to hire a robotic substitute to replace an absent teacher, or to direct a person towards a robotic career... Japan is at the robotic forefront in meeting its needs. Our needs may be different; we can draw inspiration, but it's up to us to adapt robotics to our ambitions.
References
Asimo - Honda - http://asimo.honda.com/
Geminoid F - http://francejapon.fr/japon-geminoid-f-premier-robot-avatar-plus-vrai-que-nature
Pepper- http://sciencepost.fr/2016/04/japon-robot-humanoide-officiellement-inscrit-college/
Aiko Chihira - http://www.maxisciences.com/robot/aiko-chihira-le-troublant-robot-humanoide-plus-vrai-que-nature-de-toshiba_art34097.html
Hanako - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhzbFaNueKU
Tipron - https://tipron.cerevo.com/en/
Hal - https://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/products/HAL/
Automatica (Kuka) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAdqazixuRY
Hospi - Panasonic - http://news.panasonic.com/global/topics/2015/44009.html
Robear - http://www.riken.jp/en/pr/press/2015/20150223_2/
HSR - Human Support Robot - Toyota
http://www.toyota-global.com/innovation/partner_robot/family_2.html
Toy robot tests (more in the margin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMD7PRklSGY
Several robot tests - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clo_JaNjVfI
Bushido Robot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3XyDLbaUmU
Ping pong Robot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIIJME8-au8
Robot music (Revenge) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv6op2HHIuM
Killer robot (satire) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsPvv_rJzB0
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