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 ...

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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’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 ...

AI robots may hold key to nursing Japan’s aging population REUTERS. February 28, 2025 at 10:25 JST. Share; Tweet list; Print; AIREC, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven humanoid robot, ...

A major national survey of over 9,000 elder-care institutions in Japan showed that in 2019, only about 10% reported having introduced any care robot, while a 2021 study found that out of a sample ...

Uber Eats customers in Japan can soon have an autonomous, AI-powered robot deliver their food on the streets of Tokyo. Uber Eats is launching robot deliveries in Japan Skip to main content ...

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 ...