Feeling Machines: Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care by Bender, Shawn

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

In recent years, debates over healthcare have accompanied rapid advances in technology, from the expansion of telehealth...
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Feeling Machines: Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care by Bender, Shawn

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

€71,60

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

€71,60
Author: Shawn Bender
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Shawn Bender
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 11/19/2024
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9781503641150

About the Author
Shawn Bender is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and affiliated with the department of Anthropology and the Health Studies Certificate Program at Dickinson College.

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