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The Hard Truth Behind Japan’s Cute Robots – Shunsuke Aoki

Feb 15, 201629 minSeason 1Ep. 39
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Episode description

Japan has a long cultural fascination with human-like robots. Literature, cinema and anime are filled with them, and perhaps not surprisingly, a large number of Japanese startups are focused on making anthropomorphic robots. I have to admit that this fascination never really made sense to me until Shunsuke explained it during this interview.
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