METI Wants to Have Teh Robot Sex
So the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has a plan. A grand plan. Make robots a centerpiece of Japanese life and integrate them into all facets of human interaction, hopefully countering a declining labor pool, declining birth rate, and aging population,
METI apparently distributed literature at the 2007 CES to this effect:
Indeed, Kalb provided literature from METI laying out an official plan to assimilate robots into Japanese society, through 2025. In the next few years, the plan includes support for the creation of a robot service market, humanoid robot development efforts, common infrastructure development projects and basic development for “strategic advanced robots.” The “spreading stage” should begin about 2010, and the “full-fledged spreading stage” in 2015. By that time the Japanese robot market should amount to 3.1 trillion yen ($26 billion), and general-purpose self-directed robots should be in circulation.
I don’t like the sound of “strategic advanced robots”. I don’t like the sound of that at all.
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