re: #80 LudwigVanQuixote

Well, I’m hardly an expert on Japan… but from what I gather, the driving force behind robotics in Japan is to come up with a labor force. With shrinking population, there is an emerging need for a manual labor replacement force.

The auto industry already has been highly transformed into a state where few human hands are needed to physically touch the product. One wonders if such mundane tasks as found in agriculture and construction could likewise be automated.