Why Japan Doesn't Fear Robots

Awesome article at The Economist explaining why the rest of us will be slaves to Japanese robots in another 20 years. Link from Shandy.

UPDATE: See also The 50 Best Robots Ever from Wired. Okay, okay, so some are fictional characters, like HAL 2000 and the Terminator. But the top of the list are all real, functional robots. And they are almost all Japanese, naturally.