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39: The Hard Truth Behind Japan’s Cute Robots – Shunsuke Aoki
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2016-02-15 05:00:35
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Japan has a long cultural fascination with human-like robots. Literature, cinema and anime are filled with them, and perhaps not surprisingly, a large number of Japanese startups are focused on making anthropomorphic robots. I have to admit that this fascination never really made sense to me until Shunsuke explained it during this interview.

 

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