Robot Fiction Defines Robotics: Japan vs The West

Skynet, Terminator or maybe Matrix these are the names that might come to our minds when we think of robots combined with artificial intelligence (AI). And what does these cults represent, fear! A threat that has been a common motif since Frankenstein and R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots). The consequence of creating artificial life; or the impossibility of co-existence of people and artificial machines always seems to be a far-fetched dream. Meanwhile in Japan, the take is completely different.