SoftBank Group Corp. Pepper humanoid robots stand behind a counter while customers place orders at the Pepper Parlor cafe in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Robots are by and large given an easy ride in Japan. Most people like them, an esteemed Tokyo University robotics professor once told me, and the rest don’t actively dislike them.
And as Japan’s population greys and shrinks, that robophilia has come in handy. Increasingly, industry, academia and the government pitch advances in robotics as a panacea for the challenges that come with being the world’s fastest-aging society. Japan has a population that […]
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