How Japan Became a World Robotics Leader

The Woman on Actroid

The Actroid woman is a revolutionary example of a real machine that is identical to the machines known as "android" or "gynoid" in science fiction literature, which have only ever been attributed to hypothetical robots up until now.

The Actroid F telepresence robot can mimic a variety of essential bodily processes, including blinking, speaking, and breathing. The Reply models are interactive robots with artificial intelligence that can recognise and comprehend speech and give equivalent responses.

So, we've reached the most hyper-realistic facial movement in Japanese robotics. They are examining even the smallest details, such tiny smiles, barely discernible frowns, and right and left glances. People have an instinctive fear of inanimate objects moving in human-like shapes, a phenomena known as the uncanny valley, even though some of these fears may be taken into account.

It is a quality that nature has given to each of us. It is impossible to avoid it. If the form is created to be far more beautiful than is humanly feasible, the fear can be vanquished.

It is extremely common because of hyper-realistic skin. Hyper-realistic speech and now hyper-realistic emotions are the offspring of hyper-realistic looks. Therefore, there are certain realities about female robots in Japan. The market for industrial robots was valued $8.497 billion in 2011, and Japanese companies accounted for 50.2% of the total.

Japan was the second-largest market for robot sales as of 2015. It is the world's second-largest market for robotics. Over a quarter of a million people are employed as industrial robots in Japan, which also has the world's largest robotics sector.

Japan anticipates that over 1 million people will work in robotics within the next 15 years, with revenues exceeding 70 billion dollars, thanks to advanced technology as well as the influence of Japanese robot culture. Japan is now the country with the most cutting-edge robotics technology in the world. Since the 1950s, Japan has created an abundance of animation and comic books with robot themes.

Asimo

Honda built Asimo, a robot that can move out of the way, bow wave, walk, run, leap frog, play football, collect drinks, serve refreshments, converse and play ten different instruments. By giving a speech, dressed as a robotic lady, and being granted honorary citizenship by Saudi Arabia, Hanson Robotics is making a good impression on people in the meanwhile.

It will surprise you to learn that Honda created these robots in the 1990s.

Machine Wife

A fully working wife robot has been made available in Japan. It's possible that the price, in this case $345k, will turn you away. On the other side, the subterranean corporation uses it as a means of self-funding. One robot can cost a million dollars, but nobody will be able to afford it. You can only buy it if you've been given permission to do so. It is capable of performing a variety of tasks, including cooking, cleaning, speaking kind words, conducting housework, and even giving birth in a synthetic womb. Many individuals think women's rights are finally coming to an end.

It will be a long time before people lose their jobs with a million dollars in training and a $45,000 pay. Nobody compares to the level of robots created in Japan, and despite China having a 10-year robotics development gap, we recently saw a model that can perform nearly all human functions. While initially requiring a person to sit behind a screen, the robot may now be used to load items onto shelves at supermarkets. Now that we've figured out how to make them operate, we'll soon be able to fully automate the robots.

The corporation initially planned to rent these robots out rather than purchase them for warehouses. A good example of a machine built by the Japanese industry is the Model T. You'll be shocked to find that, in 2009, when the internet and all other technologies were still in their infancy, Japan was the first country to come up with the idea of using robots to make pancakes.

When consumers asked for pancakes, the robot could answer by cooking some for them. It might also be able to communicate with clients of the shop. They are not commonly used since creating such robots is so expensive. For instance, the robot we talked about in the beginning cost $500,000 to $1,000,000 in total. How much work is being done in robotics will surprise you.

You can quickly spot a group of extremely secure warehouses in outlying Japanese towns since the corporations behind them don't want anyone to know what's inside of them.

Z Mazinger

Since then, a number of automation-related Japanese products have come to light, including Mazinger Z Gundam, Robotech, Evangelion Transformers, and others. Did you know that Sofia, the humanoid robot, has over 600 posts and 166 thousand followers on Instagram? Our best judgement is that she posted them or that the business did so to promote its goods.

We hope she will be happy with it, and perhaps she will also be happy that we are now entirely capable of creating robots that can carry out all of a human's functions, like one of the useful human-like robots produced by the Japanese industry.

The Model T is capable of carrying out tasks much like a person, however it moves much more slowly. For instance, the Model T needs eight seconds to arrange items on shelves while a worker only needs five. But for now, it doesn't matter; we can leave the robot plugged in all night so that it can work for us on day two.

The problem still exists because AI is currently lagging behind. We haven't seen much progress from the company despite investing a billion dollars in open AI, but we may expect a lot in the future. What if AI surpasses human intelligence? Facebook instantly terminated the project after discovering that both AI participants in an experiment where they intended AI to connect with AI in a messenger started speaking in an odd language.

Japan Has the Capability to Hasten the Process

More than any other nation, Japan has the capacity to accelerate this process. Indeed, we are moving towards a future that resembles a robot science fiction film, one in which a sizable portion of our civilisation will be made up of robots. Remember the movie I, Robot? The movie describes the development of robots and their effects on our daily life. There is now one USSR robot for every five people on the earth due to the USSR robot's immense popularity.

Japan would be the first nation with that many robots if this were to happen. In 2003, they debuted the most lifelike robot in robotics history as the first nation in the world to introduce a humanoid robot.

Since then, the product has been available in a number of variations. Most of the time, the robot's appearance is based on a normal young Japanese woman.

Finally, What do you think of the possibility that AI develops to a level that is beyond what is required while we also have personal robots?