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Pacific Rim 161: Japan's Soft Power: Robots & Technology

Resources on Japanese culture and influence

Robots

Japan: the Land of Rising Robotics
What the world can learn from Japan’s robots
There’s something fishy about this robot (Nissan)
To develop tomorrow’s self-driving cars, engineers look to Mother Nature.
Includes video
A Robotic Dog's Mortality (8:28)
When Sony stopped manufacturing replacement parts for its Aibo pet robot, owners scrambled to save the robot-dogs that had become part of their families.