Disrupting Japan: Startups and Innovation in Japan

The Hard Truth Behind Japan’s Cute Robots – Shunsuke Aoki

Japan has a long cultural fascination with human-like robots. Literature, cinema and anime are filled with them, and perhaps not surprisingly, a large number of Japanese startups are focused on making anthropomorphic robots. I have to admit that this fascination never really made sense to me until Shunsuke explained it during this interview.