Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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 Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
I remember learning about the cultural differences between the West and East when it comes to Robots. Eastern Culture (Japan in particular) want robots as human like as possible. In the West, robots are meant to be more machine-like, to differentiate robots from people.
It makes a lot of sense. Look at the robots that we make in the US versus Japan. US robots are purely functional with or attempts to make it "look human". Japanese robots, on the other hand, are created from the start to be as "life like" as possible. |
Well, except for all those robots in the Japanese auto factories, right?
Japanese make functional robots just as much as others make human-like ones. It just seems it isn't so because toy robots are more popular in Japan than in Western countries (it's a matter of perception: they associate humanoid robots with the superheroes in comics like Goldorak and Atom Boy and we see them and think about Robot Monster (cheesy) or the Terminator (scary)) and Japanese electronics manufacturers have created a few robots to act as showpieces (marketing on the benevolent image that humanoid robots have in Japan). |
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