Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology and the History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is author of Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan and Native and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City.

"Jennifer Robertson’s engaging and insightful book Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family and the Japanese Nation is one of the first scholarly works to examine the social and cultural implications of robotics in Japan. . . . Robertson’s book breaks new ground by putting the field of Japanese robotics technology into conversation with social scientific scholarship on gender, nationalism, and disability. The book will be of great interest to researchers working in these fields and will surely stimulate further work on the culture of robotics. Robertson is a gifted writer whose prose is fluid and free of jargon. Advanced undergraduate students and graduate students will encounter little difficulty in making their way through the text. They and other readers will be well rewarded for doing so."

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAuthor’s Notes1. Robot Visions2. Innovation as Renovation3. Families of Future Past4. Embodiment and Gender5. Robot Rights vs. Human Rights6. Cyborg-Ableism beyond the Uncanny (Valley)7. Robot Reality CheckNotesBibliographyIndex

Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology and the History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is author of Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan and Native and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City.

"Jennifer Robertson’s engaging and insightful book Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family and the Japanese Nation is one of the first scholarly works to examine the social and cultural implications of robotics in Japan. . . . Robertson’s book breaks new ground by putting the field of Japanese robotics technology into conversation with social scientific scholarship on gender, nationalism, and disability. The book will be of great interest to researchers working in these fields and will surely stimulate further work on the culture of robotics. Robertson is a gifted writer whose prose is fluid and free of jargon. Advanced undergraduate students and graduate students will encounter little difficulty in making their way through the text. They and other readers will be well rewarded for doing so."

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAuthor’s Notes1. Robot Visions2. Innovation as Renovation3. Families of Future Past4. Embodiment and Gender5. Robot Rights vs. Human Rights6. Cyborg-Ableism beyond the Uncanny (Valley)7. Robot Reality CheckNotesBibliographyIndex

Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology and the History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is author of Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan and Native and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City.

"Jennifer Robertson’s engaging and insightful book Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family and the Japanese Nation is one of the first scholarly works to examine the social and cultural implications of robotics in Japan. . . . Robertson’s book breaks new ground by putting the field of Japanese robotics technology into conversation with social scientific scholarship on gender, nationalism, and disability. The book will be of great interest to researchers working in these fields and will surely stimulate further work on the culture of robotics. Robertson is a gifted writer whose prose is fluid and free of jargon. Advanced undergraduate students and graduate students will encounter little difficulty in making their way through the text. They and other readers will be well rewarded for doing so."

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAuthor’s Notes1. Robot Visions2. Innovation as Renovation3. Families of Future Past4. Embodiment and Gender5. Robot Rights vs. Human Rights6. Cyborg-Ableism beyond the Uncanny (Valley)7. Robot Reality CheckNotesBibliographyIndex