Robots Seen Doing Work Of 3.5 mln People In Japan
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By Doug Perry
Published on 04/8/2008
NEW AGE
Reuters
NEW AGE
´Robots are important because they could help in some ways to alleviate such shortage of the labour force,´ Takao Kobayashi said.
Robots could fill the jobs of 3.5 million people in greying Japan by 2025, a thinktank says, helping to avert worker shortages as the country's population shrinks.
Robots could fill the jobs of 3.5 million people in greying Japan by 2025, a thinktank says, helping to avert worker shortages as the country's population shrinks.
Japan faces a 16 percent slide in the size of its workforce by 2030 while the number of elderly will mushroom, the government estimates, raising worries about who will do the work in a country unused to, and unwilling to contemplate, large-scale immigration.