Robots in Japan

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Robots in japan

ROBOTS / ai IN MOVIES

WHICH DO YOU RECOGNISE?

Robots in a hotel

henn-na

1. How many robots are there in Japan? What are the plans? What industries are interested in them?
2. What do we learn about capsule hotels?
3. What robots do we meet in the museum?
4. What does Henn-na mean in English?

5. What is used instead of a traditional key or card? 6. Who is Hideo Sawade? 7. What does he say about the interest of Japanese in robots? Where does it come from? 8. How does he see the division of work between people and robots in the future? 9. What are the comments of Japanese people about the hotel?

Quizlet

glossary

Glossary

ROBOTS AT WORK

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVATAGES

BRAVE NEW WORLD

READ THE TEXT

The leaflet on the left describes robots you can see at Brave New World - a trade fair organised in Japan. How can these robots be better than human employees? What problems would you expect?

LISTEN

What complaints about the robots presented did people in the recording make?