By the year 2025, robots in Japan will take 3.5 million jobs
By the year 2023, Japan will face a shortage of 16% of the workforce, while the
number of older people will increase. This is disturbing Government is not
accustomed to large-scale immigration and a customized it.
Experts from Machine Industry Memorial
Foundation belive, that people could
replace robots. In their assessment by the year 2025, robots will take in Japan
3.5 million jobs.
This number included a wide variety of robots: from
miniature models can detect lesions to large machines, which are, in fact,
high-tech vacuum cleaners. It is not that people replaced by robots, so to
speak, one by one - robots only will improve productivity, and more time working
so that they can focus on more important tasks.
Among the priority areas for the application of robots called health care for
the elderly, child care, delivery at home.
Now Japan per woman have an
average 1.3 children. This is significantly below the replacement level, so that
according to official estimates, about 40% of the population in 2055 would
amount to people over 65 years of age. This poses acute question: who will look
after an ageing nation? It seems that this role is destined robots.
At
this time, the proliferation of robots constrained, first of all, the high cost.
As the robots will be cheapest, their number will grow.
Source: Reuters
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