Kimiya Ishikawa, chief executive of Silver Wing Social Care Corporation which runs Shintomi, said Japan's affinity for technology and the familiarity of robots ... make Japan's elderly care ...

The 150-kg artificial intelligence-driven humanoid robot called AIREC is a prototype future "caregiver" for Japan's rapidly ... will be needing robots' support for medical and elderly care ...

A researcher at Waseda University’s laboratory in Tokyo, Japan, plays an elderly patient to demonstrate ... but the use of robots has been limited so far. At one facility in Tokyo, a bug-eyed ...

Japan is set to face a shortage of around 1 million medical and welfare service workers in 2040, when the country’s elderly population ... agenda items facing social security services ...