Robots will replace the Japanese to 2025 3500000
TOKYO ( Reuters ) - The robots may be replaced by the 3.5 million jobs by the Japanese in 2025 as the country's working-age population decreases.
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According to government estimates, excluding large-scale immigration, Japan, on the threshold of 16 per cent decrease in the number of workers by 2030, while the number of elderly will only grow.
Organization of Machine Industry Memorial Foundation says robots could help fill the gap. We are not talking about replacing "a robot for one person," the fund said that the robots are designed to save the life time of people, so that people could spend it on something more useful.
Japan could save 2.1 trillion yen ($ 21 billion) of pension insurance premiums in 2025 by using robots that control the health of the elderly.
Housewives would save more than an hour a day if robots helped look after the children, the elderly and the Khoi-what did the housework. Help would be in the form of reading aloud, or assistance in bathing the elderly.
"Seniors do not retire until they reach age 65, kindergartens will be built so that more women can work during the day, and there is a tendency to increase the share of foreign laborers. But none of these factors can reduce the working time, "said Takao Kobayashi (Takao Kobayashi), who worked on the study.
"Robots are important because they could help to some extent alleviate labor shortages."
The current fertility rate - 1.3 baby per woman, far below the replacement level, while the government estimates that 40 percent of the population will be over a 65-2055g, the question is who will take care of the elderly population tomorrow.
Kobayashi said that serious improvements to the robots were able to exert effective influence on the reduction of working time.
"They are still quite expensive, the functions of robots still need to improve, and then there are thinking people," he said. "People have to want to use the robots."
April 8, 2008 at 21:29
As long as people want to finally dare to use the robots, the robots will use people already :)
April 9, 2008 at 22:36
Already using.
I doubt that robots will be able to reduce the number of working hours. Such a thought was in my head all the science fiction in the 50s. So what? Where is it, this reduction?
How-ever, in the future. As the number of vehicles grows in proportion to the amount of time required for its maintenance. We all dream of a trouble-free computer, but 30 percent of the time spent to bring to life those same computers. So we have computers, taking our time, myself.