The Country Where the Robot Future Is Being Built
On this episode of the Bloomberg Originals series Momentum, we discover how Japan came to embrace robotics as both an industry and part of daily life.
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Japan is the world’s biggest industrial robot manufacturer, but its relationship with robotics extends far beyond mechanical and technological prowess. Japanese culture, perhaps more than any other, has embraced the seemingly inescapable future in which humans and robots work hand-in-mechanical hand.
On this episode of the Bloomberg Originals series Momentum, Haslinda Amin explores how across construction, manufacturing, agriculture and even hospitality, robots are being incorporated into everyday Japanese life to both address long-term societal issues and improve current living conditions. The upswing in innovation is part of a broader technological resurgence in a country that introduced the world to the electronic age.