It is generally accepted that Japan is the epitome of a manufacturing economy. Country of energy and other natural resources are scarce, and that depends on its ability to sell products manufactured in the world. Japanese Industrial hear American Statistical Edward Deming and industrial engineering at the beginning of this century, when he preached new approaches to work organization. (Deming’s compatriots, in his final disgrace and economic harm, was ignored. ) The Japanese were quick to the ideas of Deming quality circles and other methods of working with all levels of employees to self-conscious and self-critical to improve on their own working methods, by supporting each other on a regular basis to the performance and adjust nearly vertical coordination in the improvements. This corresponds to the industrial culture of Japan, during which the employee actually the home of the company for life, and believes that hard work, better work organization and the close cooperation of course. Workers and management are are on the same computer, and well-being of family and personal safety related to the welfare and safety of the Company. Uniforms and pins are required. In the language of a Japanese word for so-called employee in the Western sense.

Japanese manufacturing firms have rushed to computers, sensors and artificial processes adapted for automatic control of the industry. Although initially contributed little to modern control engineering, artificial intelligence, neural networks, and so in theory they were trying to understand Western literature, that these ideas can be adapted to manufacturing. The Japanese were the first to move in mechatronics, where computer chips and electromagnetic sensors and actuators are closely integrated with precision machinery. Japan had university campuses and programs in mechatronics engineering at universities in the United States before. JTEC team saw all tests shows that Japan will continue such pre-eminence in the application of computers in manufacturing and other industrial applications.

Robotics is a special and very important human-computer interaction – an interaction that includes not only devices but also mechanical actuators and sensors. Japan is in love with robots. From the beginning, Japan has tried to implement the tasks of industrial robots and more. Japan, it seems, so many robot exhibitions, conferences and articles in popular magazines and newspapers, film programs and so on, as the United States on a per capita basis, Japan has a lot more. MITI Mechanical Engineering and Electronics Laboratory in Tsukuba City Industrial Research is under way for the robot for many years. What the Japanese seem to call for basic research is really the technical development of equipment for hiking, climbing walls, and the handling of ever smaller scale, for example. His research is very device-oriented robots.

It is important to distinguish between industrial robots, service robots and robotic tele-robotic doctors. An industrial robot is a machine that can be programmed to perform a specific task, with a high degree of autonomy several times in a carefully controlled environment. It is usually installed in a factory production line. A service robot, however, a programmed apparatus, or more or less continuously from one person to do, what to change in the rule, a job, and not reproducible in a controlled and monitored a little unpredictable. Examples are robots for cleaning windows and floors of buildings, the placement and retrieval of packets used in the storage and delivery of postal items. A tele-robot is a sub-operation of service robots in an environment dangerously far from the human operator and a rule for the people. Examples include telerobotic manipulators in space vehicles, planetary robots, deep sea exploration vehicles and manipulators, and other similar devices that operate in an environment of radioactive or toxic chemicals.

Japan initially purchased and installed in the United States (Ex Unimate, Cincinnati Milacron) and European (eg ASEA) of industrial robots for welding, painting and simple assembly. The Japanese quickly learned how to make your own, and in many cases, companies have acquired U.S. and Europe, the robot.
Japan now seems to be the largest user of industrial robots. On the question of the cessation of production employees in the use of robots are Japanese businessmen quick to point out the differences between Japanese and American workers. In Japan, the company has an obligation of the employee for life, and the workers have a major impact on how robots are used. In addition, employees not ignorant of mathematics and technology, like robots work and how the program, Japanese workers have a better technical training of their American counterparts. Finally, robots are much more accepted in Japanese culture in the United States.

Japan seems to be the development of service robots more or less the same pace as in America, but probably because the robots require continuous human reprogramming the keyboard and communication is difficult for the Japanese, it is unlikely that the same number of computer-graphics interfaces to see robots. In addition, because the U.S. space program and underwater robotic activities have an advantage, the U.S. easily in these areas. The Japanese, however, now have an active space robotics program that was originally designed to work with a particular module from Japan to the United States Space Station Freedom, under the current political situation, the module can be programmed so that reinforcements can be summoned by the Japanese in life, some years after the original program. The future of the Japanese space robotics is not clear, especially since the U.S. program is not reliable.

Endoscopic surgery (eg removal of the gall bladder by laparoscopy, arthroscopy of the knee and shoulder joints, endoscopic removal of polyps, and removal of neurosurgery for brain tumors) have much in common with telerobotics, such as the use of robots for the processing of the hip bone programmed during a orthopedic joint replacement. Robotics ideas (brakes fitted to existing work, but not the ends) since the 1960s in the development of artificial limbs and power have been used. In combination, these three will have a new class called medical robot. Only industrial robots tend to operate autonomously for long periods. All other tend to be closely related with human operators. The sophistication of computer involvement can from a simple reading of the functions of the encoder section and provide simple control of information by the matrix inversion in the context of the kinematic transformations, the AI ​​exotic or surgery neural networks for perception, decision making and learning.

During the investigation, JTEC, the writer attended the International Workshop on Human-Robot Symbiosis biorobotics and in Tsukuba on 18-19 May 1995.
Presentations on service robots and robotic tele-robotic doctors. The Japanese have a significant contribution to achieve the robot conferences for many years, especially in the design of smart sensor devices. Therefore, it is not surprising at this conference was the continuing reports of construction of the Japanese robotic devices that are smaller and smarter. The most interesting was the variety of Japanese paper robots and other related topics: Robots on the elderly, social robots that help imitate the action of the animal gently, that Bridgestone (tire manufacturer) soft arm of the robot, a code of conduct for co-existence between humans and robots artificial and others – they all show great interest in creating smooth, soft, flexible interaction, adaptable between robots and humans. It seemed the importance of the JTEC panel saw in Japan in the development of human-computer interactions echo.

In 1952, A.S. Douglas wrote his PhD degree at the University of Cambridge on Human-Computer interraction. Douglas created the first graphical computer game – a version of Tic-Tac-Toe. The game was programmed on a EDSAC vaccuum-tube computer, which had a cathode ray tube display.

William Higinbotham created the first video game ever in 1958. His game, called “Tennis for Two,” was created and played on a Brookhaven National Laboratory oscilloscope. In 1962, Steve Russell invented SpaceWar!. Spacewar! was the first game intended for computer use. Russell used a MIT PDP-1 mainframe computer to design his game.

In 1967, Ralph Baer wrote the first video game played on a television set, a game called Chase. Ralph Baer was then part of Sanders Associates, a military electronics firm. Ralph Baer first conceived of his idea in 1951 while working for Loral, a television company.

In 1971, Nolan Bushnell together with Ted Dabney, created the first arcade game. It was called Computer Space, based on Steve Russell’s earlier game of Spacewar!. The arcade game Pong was created by Nolan Bushnell (with help from Al Alcorn) a year later in 1972. Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney started Atari Computers that same year. In 1975, Atari re-released Pong as a home video game.

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