Feeling Machines: Japanese Robotics and the Future of Care with Anthropologist Shawn Bender

03/06/2025 16 min Temporada 2 Episodio 6
Feeling Machines: Japanese Robotics and the Future of Care with Anthropologist Shawn Bender

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In this episode of the Dickinson College Expert Show, Professor of East Asian Studies Shawn Bender discusses his new book, Feeling Machines: Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care. Bender explains how his background in cultural anthropology and interest in Japanese technology led him to research the role of robots in caregiving for an aging population.

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