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Sunday, March 2, 2008

Japanese robots enter daily life

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/robotics/2008-03-01-robots_N.htm

Japanese are also more accepting of robots because the native Shinto religion often blurs boundaries between the animate and inanimate, experts say. To the Japanese psyche, the idea of a humanoid robot with feelings doesn't feel as creepy — or as threatening — as it might do in other cultures.

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