Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.

Japan is looking to become the dominant source of robotics by 2040, expedited by an aging population and a growing need for ...

Tokyo is emerging as a global center for humanoid robotics as industry leaders from around the world prepare to gather for ...

FRANKFURT, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Industrial Robot installation in Japan rose by +9% and reached 50,413 units in 2022. This result is exceeding the pre-pandemic level of 49,908 units in 2019. Japan ...

Japan is deploying physical AI out of demographic necessity as an ageing, shrinking workforce leaves automation the only ...

Yukiko Namekata, a resident at an elder care facility in Tokyo run by Zenkoukai, and her caregiver follow the movement of a miniature humanoid robot called PALRO. At top, AIREC, an artificial ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used ...

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The future of the world economy will be shaped either by the rapid deployment of robots or by disappointment that robotics fails to improve nearly as rapidly as boosters suggest. Either way, the ...