Human-Robot Body Process in Japan

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HUMAN–ROBOT BODY PROCESSES
Introduction
Japan is responsible for about 52% of the global share of operations robots and is leading the post-industrial world in the making of humanoid robots developed and marketed to improve and augment the human society. However, the robots must satisfy two requirements. One, their bodies must be similar to a human being implying it must have legs, torso, arms and head. Two, it has to work in an environment that is similar to that of humans like houses, schools, hospitals, offices and so on (Robertson 6). This means, the robots have processes that inform their bodies just like the human body has. This paper therefore, will look at the processes that inform how the body is made on the basis of Robo Sapiens Japanicus.
Human–Robot Body Processes
In her work on humanoids, robotics and robots, Robertson engaged in the Robo Sapiens Japanicus topic. She talked about aesthetics and ethics. According to her, significant issues associates with the cultural standards and norms integrated into the body’s imagination. Robots present norms via the expressive and perceptual cycles and are diverse in the form of interpersonal distance, pressure, facial expression, image, sound and gesture. Based on gender standards for instance, these norms are shown through facial recognition processes that establish gendered expressions made after gender has been established.
Close attention is being given to how robots perpetuate as well as challenges cultural values. According to Robertson, robots embody humanness. She presented the cultural logic that underlies Japan’s humanoid robots to show how emerging technologies like robotics consolidate conservative values (Robertson, 371).
The considerations are significant to robotics’ critical analysis as a context for the making of social identity and researches on robotics and gender propose that rooted social imaginations are always reproduced. Robertson’s robosexism presents that human robot bodies can be used as basis for reducing the association among gender and bodies from a situational relationship to a permanent one. She presents how robots embody norms as the face of Actroid Repliee Q2 averagely represents the Japanese female face whereas HRP-4C body looks like that of a young Japanese female (Robertson 23).
Robot gender affects the human users and gendered stereotypes presented by people relating with robots can foster recognition of humanoids (Robertson 87). Sometimes, stereotypes can be exploited for positive reasons. For example, an elder person may find a stereotypically gendered robot’s behavior than therapeutic intervention (Carpenter et al. 261).
Significantly, standards and norms that represent the humanoid body and those of direct expression and perception draw embodied social imaginaries. Direct perceptions of impact are responsible for the manner robots’ designs that pursue strategies in place of anthropomorp...