Living with Robots, Life with Robots: Human-Robot Coexistence in Japan | Stanford Digital Repository
This thesis examines how selected Japanese robotics communities, institutions, and public initiatives are building social, technological, and imaginative infrastructure for human-robot coexistence....
Abstract This thesis examines how selected Japanese robotics communities, institutions, and public initiatives are building social, technological, and imaginative infrastructure for human-robot coexistence. Facing unprecedented demographic challenges, Japan has begun treating robots not only as futuristic experiments but as potential partners in daily life. Through ethnographic fieldwork combining interviews with researchers at Waseda University's AIREC laboratory, industry CEOs, experts, and Robot Friendly ambassadors with observations in robot-integrated public spaces, I investigate how…
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