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Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment (www.theguardian.com)
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Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages

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[–] 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

It's Japan. Labor force is shrinking because not enough kids

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    it is not just japan, whole world has the same problem. all developed countries have birth rate low below the clean reproduction rate and are slowly dying out.

    https://ourworldindata.org/global-decline-fertility-rate

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Wages have also mostly not kept up with inflation that went nuts starting around Covid times. Some companies have been doing raises, but a lot haven't been able to keep up with inflation.

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