Robotics in Germany and Japan : : philosophical and technical perspectives / / Michael Funk, Bernhard Irrgang, editors.

• Superior document: Dresden philosophy of technology studies ; Band 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Funk, Michael, 1985-; Irrgang, Bernhard,
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt am Main : : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Dresden philosophy of technology studies ; Band 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 pages) :; illustrations.

This book comprehends an intercultural and interdisciplinary framework including current research fields like Roboethics, Hermeneutics of Technologies, Technology Assessment, Robotics in Japanese Popular Culture and Music Robots. Contributions on cultural interrelations, technical visions and essays are rounding out the content of this book.

Table of Contents

Contents: Walther Ch. Zimmerli: From Fiction to Science: A German-Japanese Era-Project -- Bernhard Irrgang: Robotics as a Future Vision for Hypermodern Technologies -- Kohji Ishihara: Roboethics and the Synthetic Approach - A Perspective on Roboethics from Japanese Robotics Research -- Mark Coeckelbergh: Robotic Appearances and Forms of Life. A Phenomenological-Hermeneutical Approach to the Relation between Robotics and Culture -- Michael Funk: Humanoid Robots and Human Knowing - Perspectivity and Hermeneutics in Terms of Material Culture -- Michael Decker: Who is taking over? Technology Assessment of Autonomous (Service) Robots -- Maika Nakao: Robots in Japanese Popular Culture -- Jorge Soli/Atsuo Takanishi: Understanding the Feasibility and Applicability of the Musician-Humanoid Interaction Research: A Study of the Impression of the Musical Interaction -- Michael Funk/Joerg Jewanski: Mozart to Robot - Cultural Challenges of Musical Instruments -- Gerd Grubler: Android Robots between Service and the Apocalypse of the Human Being -- Kerstin Palatini: Joseph Weizenbaum, Responsibility and Humanoid Robots -- Manja Unger-Buttner: Social Stereotypes as a Guarantee for Proper Human-Robot Interaction? Remarks to an Anthropomorphic Robot Design.