Robotic Japan?

Is Japan taking a step closer to make those sci-fi movies come true? By 2025, robots could fill 3.5 million jobs for the aging Japanese workforce.

By 2030, Japan’s workforce is expected to experience a 16% drop. The ‘ThinkTank‘, the Machine Industry Memorial Foundation believe solutions lies in their Japanese robots as a country that does not enjoy the idea of a large-scale immigration.

These robots are expected to reduce strains on the workforce by taking care of children, old people and housework. This will also save Japan an approximate 2.1 trillion yen ($21 billion) in elderly insurance!

However before thinking too far ahead Takao Kobayashi, who works on the Japanese workforce shortage problem state that there’s still much to be done:

“There’s the expensive price tag, the functions of the robots still need to improve, and then there are the mindsets of people.

People need to have the will to use the robots.” - Reuters

To convince you that Japan has what it takes, the picture above in one of the secretary robots invented by the Japanese. Oddly enough, this piece of news remind me of Ghost in the Shell…

Source:
Reuters
Pictures also courtesy of reuters

1 Comments

1. sathya, April 18, 2008:

   useful info

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