Feeling Machines : Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bender, Shawn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robotics in medicine--Social aspects.

Robotics in medicine.

Robots--Therapeutic use.

Robots.

Human-robot interaction.

Robotics--Human factors.

Robotics.

Older people--Care--Technological innovations.

Older people.

People with disabilities--Care--Technological innovations.

People with disabilities.

Robotics--Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"In recent years, debates over healthcare have accompanied rapid advances in technology, from the expansion of telehealth services to artificial intelligence driven diagnostics. In this book, Shawn Bender delves into the world of Japanese robots engineered for care. Care robots (kaigo robotto) emerged early in the 21st century, when roboticists began converting assembly line technologies into responsive machines for older adults and people with disabilities. These robots are meant to be felt and programmed to feel. While some greet them with enthusiasm, others fear that they might replace a fundamentally human task. Based on fieldwork in Japan, Denmark, and Germany, Bender traces the emergence of care robots in Japan and examines their impact on therapeutic practice around the world. Social science scholarship on robotics tends to be either speculative--imagining life together with robots--or experimental--observing robot-human interaction in laboratories or through short-term field studies. Instead, Bender follows roboticists developing technologies in Japan, and travels with the robots themselves into everyday sites of care, tracking the integration of robots into institutional care and the connection of care practice to robotics development. By exploring the application of Japanese robotics across the globe, Feeling Machines highlights the entanglements of therapeutic practice and technological innovation in an age of more-than-human care"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : care robotics 1.0

Robots for the future

Feeling machines in robot towns

Tinkering with care

Embracing Paro

Engaging HAL

Care robotics 2.0 meets society 5.0

Epilogue : addicted to the future.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781503641167

1503641163

OCLC:

1458763766