Robots at the cafe are piloted by people working from all over Japan – and the world (Adam Withnall/The Independent) Japan is running out of workers. With an unemployment rate of just 2.5 per ...
Robots and their pilots make up a large portion ... and growth has stagnated since the 1990s. The shortage of workers, not helped by tight restrictions on all kinds of immigration, is just one ...
A café in downtown Tokyo has robotic waiters controlled remotely by people with disabilities as a way to allow people who have significant mobility issues to work. The World’s Carolyn Beeler visited ...
In research published in Advanced Intelligence Systems, scientists have developed an innovative, soft, wearable robot to help workers avoid job-related injuries while lifting, lowering, and carrying ...