Japan loves robots, but human work is not easy for them
Robots ‘cannot perform tasks requiring judgment or evaluate a change in a situation’
Japan’s demographic crisis drives development of ‘caring’ machines
Robots may become more prevalent than immigrants in Japan, but can they be given ‘emotional engines’?
Fukushima clean-up may be doomed
Critics say Japan’s government is engaged in a vast, duplicitious and fruitless campaign
Cost of cleaning up Fukushima after nuclear disaster estimated at more than $50bn
Researchers’ figure is four times amount estimated by Japanese government
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