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Containing extensive interviews with robotics pioneers, anecdotal field notes with behindthescenes information, and easytounderstand technical data about the machines, robo sapiens is a field guide to our mechanical future. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourse of human robot relations in japan, this book explores how actual robotshumanoids, androids, and. 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. Robertsons book breaks new ground by putting the field of japanese robotics technology into conversation with social scientific scholarship on gender, nationalism, and disability.

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