This article reconsiders the present-day automation of work and its transformation of who we are as humans. What has been missing from this important conversation are the social meanings surrounding Asian roboticism or how Asians have already been rendered as “robotic” subjects and labor. Through this racial gendered trope, I assess whether industrial automation will lessen, complicate, or exacerbate this modern archetype. By looking at corporate organizational practices and public media discourse, I believe that Asian roboticism will not simply vanish, but potentially continue to affect the ways such subjects are rendered as exploitable alienated robots without human rights or status.

本文重新考虑了当今的工作自动化及其对我们作为人类的转变。这次重要对话中缺少的是围绕亚洲机器人主义的社会意义，或者亚洲人如何被视为“机器人”主题和劳动。通过这个种族性别偏见，我评估了工业自动化是否会减轻，复杂化或加剧这种现代原型。通过研究公司的组织惯例和公共媒体的话语，我相信亚洲机器人主义将不会简单地消失，而是有可能继续影响将此类主题渲染为可剥夺的，没有人权或地位的机器人的方式。