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Robots seen doing work of 3.5 mn people in Japan

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Did you know Trivia - Tokyo- Engineered Robots could fill the jobs of 3.5 million people in greying Japan by 2025, a thinktank says, helping to avert worker shortages as the country`s population shrinks.

Japan faces a 16 percent slide in the size of its workforce by 2030 while the number of elderly will mushroom, the government estimates, raising worries about who will do the work in a country unused to, and unwilling to contemplate, large-scale immigration.

The thinktank, the Machine Industry Memorial Foundation, says robots could help fill the gaps, ranging from microsized capsules that detect lesions to high-tech vacuum cleaners.
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