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Japan employed about 2.15 million nursing care workers in fiscal 2022 and will need roughly 2.72 million by fiscal 2040. Rather than…
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One Japanese chain ordered roughly 3,000 serving robots in a single purchase and put them into more than 2,000 restaurants, turning a…
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A Tokyo startup spent a decade selling a glass box with a projected anime character inside it — and once ran a…
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Boston Dynamics, Tesla, and Figure AI are spending billions on humanoids that replace a wage. Japan spent twenty years on machines with…
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NICOBO cannot vacuum, cannot reliably answer a question, and occasionally passes gas. Panasonic says it has sold more than 10,000 of them.…
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Amazon announced in January it is closing Amazon Go after eight years and well over a billion dollars. Japan's convenience stores have…
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Yodobashi Camera's robot floor hides three completely different retail businesses under one word: a commodity appliance aisle, a staffed boutique counter selling…
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Pepper greeted customers in Mizuho Bank lobbies, Hamazushi restaurants, and roughly 500 Japanese companies. Then production stopped, its French maker was liquidated,…
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Facility directors are stretching operating budgets that can't cover enough transfer lifts to buy a robot with no arms, no chores, and…
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