Robots won't save Japan : an ethnography of eldercare automation

By:

Wright, James

Material type: Text

9781501768040

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Robots won't save JapanDDC classification:

362.60 23/eng/20221021 WRI-R

LOC classification:

HV1484.J32

Contents:

Crisis and Care Robots -- Developing Robots and Designing Algorithmic Care -- Portrait of a Care Home -- Hug: Reconfiguring Lifting -- Paro: Reconfiguring Communication -- Pepper: Reconfiguring Recreation -- Beyond Care Robots.

Summary: "The book is an anthropological examination of the Japanese government's ongoing attempts to develop and implement robots as a solution to its crisis in elder care"--

List(s) this item appears in: "Field", Archive & Ethnography

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The book is an anthropological examination of the Japanese government's ongoing attempts to develop and implement robots as a solution to its crisis in elder care"--

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