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Japan Bets Revival on Robots (2017x41)

Uitzenddatum: Dec 09, 2017

Japan has fallen behind the US in information technology and lost out to other Asian countries in manufacturing. But now it has a chance to be a global technological leader once again - through robotics. Today we look at what two firms, Sony and Softbank, are doing to promote artificially intelligent robots in our everyday lives. And we ask: are robots the key to the resurgence of Japanese industry?