How Japan Embraced a Robotic Future, Today | Momentum

Join Haslinda Amin as she explores the way robots and AI are integrated into Japanese life. From drones managing crops to unmanned harvesters, see how it's paving the way to a more efficient future.

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[ml]

I think people miss the point of the video. it is not about Japan beeing the leader in Robotics, but how its society is integrating it in a unique way.

[LapinskasDarius]

it's myth pushed by business that there is shortage of workforce. it's the shortage of adequate wages that keeps people from taking work.

[Wul-Lop]

Respect to Japan... 🙏 🇯🇵 🇯🇵 🇯🇵 🇯🇵 🇯🇵 🇯🇵 🇯🇵 🇯🇵 from Thailand...

[thinking]

Japanese robots are like what the 1980's thought robots would be like in the 2020's

To be honest the robots coming out of China and USA are decades ahead of Japanese technology.

[alaafathey]

I work in an engineering office, and we are involved in setting up factories. I assure you, these Japanese robots are not present and not widespread

[loremipsum]

Japanese technology is outdated by a lot, robots coming from the USA are way ahead of this, it's actually hilarious to compare these two

[fluxrider]

I've seen this already in the 90s, same thing, useless welcome robots, and the only place robots are actually useful is in factory, just like in the 90s. Wow, a forklift.

[urbanstrencan]

Awesome to see advancement in robotics in fields like farming, construction, ...
Great work by Japanese companies to bring this tech to us.
Awesome video and keep up with great work ❤❤❤

[cmw]

I went to Japan early this year and was disappointed at the lack of progress in technology, seeing only one gimmicky robot in a shop. I expected to find some cool Japanese smart phone or other gadgets to buy but just found the same ones we have in Europe. It seems like a decade behind China on everything. The toilets are awesome though.

[c_cma]

Hello from Bucharest, Romania - a huge underrated city in Europe:)

[KomalRatnam]

It’d be nice to mute 🤫 noise pollution from construction especially in residential areas by new tech.

[battierpeeler]

wish this had a dubbed version. i play youtube videos in the background often. closed captioning doesn't do anything

[Nicaraguall]

Bloomberg - lets make a thesis, it doesn't mater is it true or not - people use to associate japan with technology, lets make material about it!
Meanwhile: Japan economy shrinking, ¥en is the cheapest in this century compared to USD, but still work ethic in JP is horrible and after hours very common.
Maybe you should make video about it?

[freeflowtrader]

I know folks with Bloomberg’s needs that 10% workforce replaced by robots for investments and stuff but was it necessary putting Japan on back burner for robotic human harmony type of stuff? Don’t forget Tesla is more autonomous than Toyota and Mitsubishi.

What? Next time robots took somebody’s job and they started blame some Asian person on the street?

[yijiequ]

The cultural and attitudinal differences between North America and Asia, particularly regarding robots and automation, are stark. In North America—take Canada, where I live—there’s significant resistance to automation in certain industries. For example, longshore unions explicitly forbid the introduction of automated technologies like self-driving cranes or vehicles. Any attempt to introduce such advancements is met with immediate strikes. In fact, union contracts often include provisions that ban efficiency improvements outright.

This mindset has resulted in inefficient practices. Ports like Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Long Beach are frequently ranked among the least efficient in the world, largely due to union-imposed restrictions on automation. Despite having more workers than jobs and often working limited hours, these ports maintain a large workforce, prioritizing job preservation over operational efficiency. They even shut down on Sunday and all holidays....

The general public also seems resistant to concepts like Kaizen—the continuous improvement philosophy widely embraced in Asia—which further hampers productivity and innovation in these sectors. Productivity improvement is almost a dirty word in large places here in Canada.

[uludak]

japan only ranks 4th in the IRF robot density index. bloomberg is looking at the wrong one

[GolDRoger-fxfp]

That's why Japan is better to other country.

Japan: robot make production efficient.

Other country: robot make production cost cut.

That's not how the economy should work.

Japan make it right.

[BilichaGhebremuse]

Excellent i am working in 5 city autonomous robotic AI so it is helpful alot

[isimongardner]

Would it be possible to get the details of the track played over the final credits?

[bobsthea]

at 8:40, john deere moments is about to happen in japan, when some companies monopolize the entire tech