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The Japanese have a cultural fascination with humanoid robots. Unfortunately, most useful robots at the moment are rather unimpressive looking and decidedly not
by zeteo 16y ago
The Japanese have a cultural fascination with humanoid robots. Unfortunately, most useful robots at the moment are rather unimpressive looking and decidedly not humanoid. Ergo, much of Japanese robotics research is closer to toy design and production than to any other branch of engineering.
- kazuya 16y ago> The Japanese have a cultural fascination with humanoid robots. If you are talking about pop culture, yes. However, non-humanoids don't make news as they have already been part of Japanese culture. Even kids know cars, toys, foods etc are made by robots. As Estragon pointed out, Japan doesn't have robots suitable for such condition as it didn't have urgent necessity. In addition, the Fukushima power plants are very old and I think it was not designed for inspection and repair by robots.