The Japanese service robot market planned to triple in five years

Faced with an aging population and the shortages of labor, Japanese companies are counting more and more on service robots to complete their workforce, According to Bloomberg.

The Fuji Keizai research firm provides the country’s service robots market almost triple by 2030, at 400 billion yen ($ 2.7 billion). Potentially stimulating this growth: the Institute Recruit Works projects that the country will face a work deficit of 11 million by 2040, while an institute supported by the government estimates that almost 40% of the population will be 65 or over by 2065.

To illustrate how robots fill the gap, Bloomberg points to the largest chain of table restaurants in the country, Skylark, which uses around 3,000 cat ears to bring food to the tables. In one of the Tokyo restaurants in the channel, Yasuko Tagawa, 71, estimated that half of his work now involves a form of robotic assistance.

At one point, Tagawa told a robot: “Thank you for your hard work. I will count on you.