ABSTRACT
C ompared to Western countries Japan is considered to be at a more ad-vance stage of AI & Robotic development. One of the main reasons this can be attributed to is because Japanese society, mainly due to religious and cultural sentiments, is more robot friendly than Western cultures. The authors, in this chapter, attempt to firstly identify and list some of the cultural characteristics that makes the Japanese more tolerant towards a human-robot integrated society and secondly to identify what other ethnic groups, with similar socio-religious background and beliefs as Japan and with little exposure
to western culture can teach us about interacting with what -western societyrefers to as soul-less objects. Particularly the authors focus on Indigenous cultures in Latin America, on their material culture, the societal practices that surround the creation of objects and on their artful and loving attention they place in their production. Inspired by Amerindian community models and their material culture, the authors propose/argue for a move towards personalized home build robots while offering/outlining/sketching an egalitarian social model for robotic communities.
