Robotic and Cybernetic Plots in the Global Imaginary The article focuses on a qualitative interpretation (carried out by means of transcultural hermeneutical methods) of the crucial the role of robotic and cybernetic plots in science fiction and in drawn literature, as distinctive elements of global imaginary . Specific attention is devoted to the still unexplored interrelations between some Western attitudes towards artificial beings and some symbolic patterns at home in the Japanese and Far Eastern imaginary: Given that such patterns are steadily embedded in contemporary social frames of ancient origins, they able to shed light on a latent posthuman attitude towards both mythical and tecnolological hybridisation among human and non human, among «natural» and artificial.