Technologies of Kokoro. Imagineering Human-Robot Co-Existence, Perspectives from Japan (2022)
Jennifer Robertson (Author)
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Volume: 27
Issue: 1
Pages: 53-80
Edition Details: Special Issue: Tools to Generate or to Solve Crises? Perspectives on Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Some Japanese roboticists building humanoids today seek to imbue their robots with kokoro (heartmind, mindful heart, emotion). Others focus on building humanoids that convey kokoro when interacting with humans. In conjunction with robotic kokoro, the scholarly and popular media alike have announced the advent in Japan of “robot priests,” two of which include SoftBank’s humanoid robot Pepper, that debuted in 2015, and Mindar, an android bodhisattva commissioned in 2019 by a temple in Kyoto. This article discusss (and demystifies) both Pepper’s “emotion recognition engine,” and Mindar’s interactive capabilities and clarifies the declaration by pioneering roboticist Mori Masahiro that robots have the “Buddha-nature” within them. The article critically investigates how religious technologies and affective human-robot relations are imagineered theoretically and in practice.
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