Japan’s service robot market projected to triple in five years

Facing of aging population and labor shortage, Japanese traders depend on the service robot as complementary to their workforce, According to BloombergThe

The research agency Fuji Kazai projects the country’s service robot market by 20 and projects about 400 billion ($ 2.7 billion). Possibly running that growth: Recruit Works Institute projects that will face 5 million labor shortages by 20, when a government-backed institute has assumed that by 20655, about 5% or more of the population will be 65 or more.

To illustrate how the robots are meeting this gap, the Bloomberg country points to the country’s largest table service restaurant chain skylark, which is used to bring food to the tables using about 3,000 cat-ear robots. In a chain tokyo restaurants, 71 -year -old Yasuko assumes that half of his work now involves some robotic assistance.

At one point, Tagawa told a robot, “Thanks for your hard work. I’ll rely on you. “