Toyota Sees Robotic Nurses in Your Lonely Final Years



Looking ahead at the second half of this century, Toyota sees a mounting health care crisis and aging population coming to Japan. It sees a future where manufacturing robotic workers is the hot new industry and “autonomation” takes on a whole new meaning

…Before Toyota made cars, it made robots. It’s making them again, and wants to use them in a most unusual place.
When it was founded in 1926, Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (as it was then known) manufactured automatic fabric looms that could detect problems and shut down automatically. It marketed these revolutionary devices as having autonomation automation with human intelligence.
Now Toyota, looking ahead at the second half of this century, sees a mounting health care crisis and aging population coming to Japan. It sees a future where manufacturing robotic workers is the hot new industry and autonomation takes on a whole new meaning.
And the first place we might see these robots is in hospitals.

Japan’s aging population and low birthrate point to a looming shortage of workers, and Japan’s elder care facilities and hospitals are already competing for nurses. This fact has not escaped Toyota, which runs Toyota Memorial Hospital in Toyota City, Japan. Taking a lead from Honda, Toyota in 2004 announced plans to…

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Toyota Sees Robotic Nurses in Your Lonely Final Years

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