The Japanese And Their Robots
from the robotic-everything dept
I see lots of stories going around today about the new effort in Japan to build a humanoid robot with "mental, physical and emotional capacity of a 5-year-old human." They're trying to get lots of cash from the government to work on the project, and hope that it will promote technology advances in Japan. Meanwhile, some other researchers are working on the (in comparison) much more mundane task of building a robot suit to help people who are old or disabled be able to walk with assisted help from the suit. Forget the iBot, I want a robotic suit.
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For the Japanese, who are surrounded by lower-wage nations, whose nation was not designed for the sake of immigrants, their survival is at stake in designing robots that can do a better job than cheap labor.
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