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Japan Is Starting to Use Robots in 7-Eleven Shops to Compensate for the Massive Shortage of Workers

The newest employee at a Tokyo 7-Eleven works through the night without a single break. It silently stocks drinks and other ...
The Independent on MSN

Japan begins robot trials in 7-Eleven amid massive worker shortage

Japan begins robot trials in 7-Eleven amid massive worker shortage - Autonomous machines will stack shelves and clean windows ...
CNN

Uber Eats is launching robot deliveries in Japan

Uber Eats customers in Japan can soon have an autonomous robot deliver their food on the streets of Tokyo. Uber announced a partnership Tuesday between robotics firm Cartken and Japanese industrial ...
techtimes

Humanoid Robots Now Do the Dirty Work of Railway Maintenance in Japan

AFP reports that the newly deployed robot, mounted on a truck that can drive on rails, is operated remotely by a human sitting in a cockpit on the truck. The operator "sees" through the robot's eyes ...