Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has held its first meeting to draft a national strategy for AI-powered robotics, reviewing the reasons behind Japan’s weakness in service, and in doing so it brought together experts from industry and academia to analyse why Japanese firms lag in areas such as service robots and AI-driven automation in daily-life settings, discussed how to link advances in generative and physical AI with deployment in sectors like logistics, retail, and care, and began outlining policy directions, regulatory adjustments, and investment priorities aimed at closing the service-robot gap with global competitors while reinforcing Japan’s broader industrial competitiveness.
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