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Fighting with Rotating Blades, Boomerangs, and Crushing Punches: A History of Mecha from a Robotics Point of View (2024)

Ambrosetti, Nadia (Author)

Foundations of Science
Volume: 29
Issue: 1
Pages: 59-85

URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-022-09887-5

DOI: 10.1007/s10699-022-09887-5

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Technology and culture Mechanism Automata; robotics; cyborgs Mechanical engineering 21st century 20th century Japan Mori, Masahiro

This work is the extended version of a paper presented at the conference HMM2021, about the history of mechanical engineering. First, the initial cultural and industrial steps in the robotic field in Japan are introduced, to display the beginning of this interlaced path, before WW2; then, in the context of the aftermaths of the war, some famous anime heroes are presented as ancestors of the coming mecha anime series. The rising research in the field of robotics and more generally the developments of contemporary Japanese automation industry are then drawn, as a technological substrate for mecha conception. In particular, Masahiro Mori studies are taken into consideration to identify an actual robot design pattern to apply to the following comparative description and examination of the different mecha; finally, thanks to this analysis, the common breeding ground whence robotics and mecha (and their reciprocal influences) arise, is outlined.

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