Beginning in the 1960’s, the rise of manufacturing for the automotive industry and the concomitant rise of industrial robots played an indispensable role in powering Japan’s economic miracle.

The Japanese automotive industry installed a total of about 13,000 industrial robots in 2024. This is an 11% increase compared to the previous year and the highest level recorded since 2020. These are ...

By the 1980’s, the momentum accelerated to the point where commentators began referring to 1980 as “year one” for Japanese robotics.

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.

Meanwhile, the Japanese media tend to view robots as a source of pride, not terror, since they highlight the country’s ability to innovate; indeed, with 300-plus robots per 10,000 employees, ...

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Japan’s service robot industry is poised for explosive growth, with market value expected to reach more than ¥400 billion ($2.7 billion) by 2030—nearly three times its size in 2024 ...

Faced with an aging population and labor shortages, Japanese businesses are increasingly relying on service robots to supplement their workforce, according to Bloomberg. Research firm Fuji Keizai ...

Engineers in Japan are trying to get robots to imitate that particularly human expression — the smile. They have created a face mask from human skin cells and attached it to robots with a novel ...