Comments on: In Japan, robots are people, too

"Loving the Machine" author Timothy Hornyak looks at why the Japanese see a friendly face in the dawning era of robots.
Photos: The friendly faces of Japanese robots

[Llib Setag]

woah

That "T-H" robot in the photo almost looks human...

[lingsun]

They're not robots in the true sense

They are machines that are meant to similute robots. They aren't robots in the classic sense--like R2D2 from Star Wars or Isaac Asimov's robots. There aren't going to be self-aware robots any time soon that see, hear, and obey spoken commands.

[DeusExMachina]

Of course they are

OF course they are robots in the "true" sense, whatever that means.
If you are talking about the term coined by Karel ?apek, this is
exactly how it was used. It is also compatible with the modern
dictionary definition.
As for your own criteria, there are already existing devices that
satisfy all your requirements, including vision, audition, and the
ability to respond to spoken commands.
Where have you been the last 15 years?

[technewsjunkie]

The Japanese will own the home robot market of the future

Unlike the U.S. were companies are tied to short term results,
the Japanese plan _decades_ in advance.

Ford and GM didn't learn in the 70's! Look at them now as
Toyota
is kicking butt, again. They have been making better products,
period! Better design, better aestheics, better reliability and
resale value.

Short term gains vs long term strategic planning. The future will
be replete with robots - in the home - and the Japanese will
dominate

[Llib Setag]

Redmond, we have a robot...

MS Robotics software today, MSRobots tommorrow?

God help us all...

[hakuta_cn]

This is Japanese.
Excuse me, but I want to use in my poor English

There are a doll culture in Japan for a long time, and we are healed by importing my feelings to dolls, and feelings are assumed to be a foothold to dolls.
And, Japanese feels the attachment for what the person made like Hinaningyo and the Akihabara figures, because they have a philosophy that a god in all places since the past and they doesn't have a stereotype of only god.
So this is not to be able to explain simply in order to have continued for a long time even in 1000.

In addition, most Japanese will not agree to the part "Japan's pacifist reaction to the atomic bomb blasts of World War II".
As for the Japanese, the group tends to do group action from the first. Most Japanese is only peaceful because Japan is peaceful by chance. On the contrary I think that most Japanese will abnormally be strong like World War I if Japan tries to get to be the militarism.