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Robotics in Germany and Japan DRESDEN PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY STUDIES DRESDNER STUDIEN ZUR PHILOSOPHIE DER TECHNOLOGIE Edited by / Herausgegeben von Bernhard Irrgang Vol./Bd. 5 Michael Funk / Bernhard Irrgang (eds.) Robotics in Germany and Japan Philosophical and Technical Perspectives Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Robotics in Germany and Japan : philosophical and technical perspec- tives / Michael Funk, Bernhard Irrgang (eds.). pages cm — (Dresden philosophy of technology perspectives, ISSN 1861–423X ; v. 5) ISBN 978-3-631-62071-7 — ISBN 978-3-653-03976-4 (ebook) 1. Robotics—Germany—Popular works. 2. Robotics—Japan--Popular works. 3. Robotics—Philosophy. I. Funk, Michael, 1985– editor of com- pilation. II. Irrgang, Bernhard, editor of compilation. TJ211.15.R626 2014 629.8'920943—dc23 2013045885 Cover illustration: Humanoid Robot “ARMAR” (KIT, Germany), Photograph: Michael Funk ISSN 1861-423X ISBN 978-3-631-62071-7 (Print) E-ISBN 978-3-653-03976-4 (E-Book) DOI 10.3726/978-3-653-03976-4 © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Frankfurt am Main 2014 All rights reserved. Peter Lang Edition is an Imprint of Peter Lang GmbH. Peter Lang – Frankfurt am Main · Bern · Bruxelles · New York · Oxford · Warszawa · Wien All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems This book is part of the Peter Lang Edition list and was peer reviewed prior to publication. www.peterlang.com Preface Germany and Japan are two of the worldwide leading countries in robotics re- search. Robotics is a key technology and it brings about technical tasks for engi- neers, but also philosophical and cultural challenges. How are we going to use robots that have a human-like appearance in everyday life? What is technologi- cally possible? What are the cultural similarities and differences between Ger- many and Japan? Those are some of the questions discussed in the book. Five chapters embrace an intercultural and interdisciplinary framework including cur- rent research fields like Roboethics, Hermeneutics of Technologies, Technology Assessment, Robotics in Japanese Popular Culture and Music Robots. Contribu- tions on cultural interrelations, technical visions and essays round the volume off. Most of the contributions in this book are based on the lectures of the con- ference “Future of Robotics in Germany and Japan” (TU Dresden, November 11-12, 2010), which was made possible and kindly supported by • Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and • MEXT Global COE Program: The University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy (UTCP), JSPS Kakenhi (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research), No. 21520004. The editors would like to express their thankfulness! Moreover we also give our thanks to Andreas Bork, Paul Stadelhofer and Beatrix Weber most sincerely for proofreading. Michael Funk & Bernhard Irrgang Table of Contents Introduction From Fiction to Science: A German-Japanese Era-Project ...................................................... 11 Walther Ch. Zimmerli Philosophical Frameworks Robotics as a Future Vision for Hypermodern Technologies ................................................... 29 Bernhard Irrgang Roboethics and the Synthetic Approach – A Perspective on Roboethics from Japanese Robotics Research .......................................... 45 Kohji Ishihara Robotic Appearances and Forms of Life. A Phenomenological-Hermeneutical Approach to the Relation between Robotics and Culture ........................................................ 59 Mark Coeckelbergh Humanoid Robots and Human Knowing – Perspectivity and Hermeneutics in Terms of Material Culture ............................................. 69 Michael Funk Technology Assessment Who is taking over? Technology Assessment of Autonomous (Service) Robots ................... 91 Michael Decker Popular Culture and Music Robots Robots in Japanese Popular Culture ....................................................................................... 113 Maika Nakao Understanding the Feasibility and Applicability of the Musician-Humanoid Interaction Research: A Study of the Impression of the Musical Interaction ......................... 125 Jorge Solis & Atsuo Takanishi Mozart to Robot – Cultural Challenges of Musical Instruments ........................................... 135 Michael Funk & Jörg Jewanski Essays Android Robots between Service and the Apocalypse of the Human Being.........................147 Gerd Grübler Joseph Weizenbaum, Responsibility and Humanoid Robots.................................................163 Kerstin Palatini Social Stereotypes as a Guarantee for Proper Human-Robot Interaction? Remarks to an Anthropomorphic RobotDesign....................................................................171 Manja Unger-Büttner Authors and Contact...............................................................................................................179 Introduction
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