WaKaGaCAR: Wadokei Karakuri Gattai Construction Automation Robotics

There is a cultural difference in the perception of robotics. In western culture the society and the human being adjusts itself to to mechanism and therefore fights it. The same happened with religion where christianity overlapped the traditional shamanism in Europe and fought till today with Islam. In Japan Buddhism did not overrun Shintoism and therefore the culture was enriched. The Wadokei mechanism adjusted itself to the japanese agri-culture whereas in Europe the society had to adjust its daily routine to the clock mechanism. Today we still find half of the industrial robot world population in Japan and researchers investigate in esthetic, social, artistic and cultural robotic developments, which appear to westerners as economically unfeasable. Even though in USA and Europe where we take an economic and materialistic appraoch to investment in robotics and automation we still have less robots installed because we prefer human robots due to tradition of slavery since the roman culture which peaked during the slave trades by Britain from Africa to America. Even the early karakuri dolls were built for entertainment of the common people where as in Europe only the aristocrats could enjoy the early automaton. In construction over 100 robots and 20 automated sites had been developed in Japan versus european construction sites with mostly foreign cheap labor. The origin of this special development in Japan can be traced to WaDokei and Karakuri.