By Akash Sriram (Reuters) -Robotics startup Skild AI, backed by Amazon.com and Japan's SoftBank Group, on Tuesday unveiled a ...

This video explores Japan's use of robots to address labor shortages. This is a special journey to explore different robot encounters in Tokyo. Our aim is to experience a world with robots in ...

Japan’s population is the oldest in the world, with few young people working in agriculture. But now its farmers are getting help from a robot called Adam.

Japan is running out of workers. With an unemployment rate of just 2.5 per cent, a rapidly ageing population and declining birth rate, finding enough people to fill roles as taxi drivers, baristas ...

Japan is a world leader in robotics technology, and the government is trumpeting robotics as a pillar of its growth strategy. Robots have long been used here in manufacturing.

Japan’s construction sector is booming but contractors are struggling to fill labour shortages—a problem playing out in other parts of the world, including the U.S. The robots demonstrated at ...

The Japanese government began providing subsidies for nursing homes to adopt robotics beginning in 2013 to help alleviate the shortage. The Shintomi nursing home in Tokyo was one such facility that ...

It has also cast a powerful spotlight on a paper published by the U.S.-based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) last month on the labour-market impact of robots in Japan’s nursing homes. The ...

Hiroshi Ishiguro's 28-centimetre-tall button-eyed Sota, which stands for "social talker," is programmed to mainly talk with a fellow robot, and won't be trying too hard to understand human speech ...

Kisui Tech has developed a robot, called Adam, to help Japan's aging farmers. It can to carry produce across difficult terrain, cut grass, and spray fields with pesticides.