Robina is a “female” robot, 60 kilograms in weight and 1.2 meters tall, that can communicate using words and gestures. Toyota built a nursing aide named Robina-modeled after Rosie, the cartoon robot nanny and housekeeper in The Jetsons-as part of their Partner Robot Family, a line of robots to take care of the world’s growing geriatric population. Rival Japanese companies Toyota and Honda are leveraging their expertise in mechanical engineering to invent the next generation of robots.
The robots depicted in the movies and cartoons of the 1960s and 1970s will become the reality of the 2020s. Just as Japanese companies reinvented cars in the 1970s and consumer electronics in the 1980s, they are now reinventing the family.
Our future caretakers are being developed in a Japanese factory right now. This labor shortage will hit service-industry jobs like eldercare with ferocity and will be exacerbated because caretakers have a high job turnover rate due to low pay and high rates of work-related injury from lifting patients. Japan allows only 50,000 work visas annually, and unless something drastic changes, the math does not work. Right now there are only 1.49 million in the country. Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare predicts a need for 4 million eldercare nurses by 2025. With Japan’s persistently strict immigration policies curtailing the number of workers in the country, there will not be enough humans around to do the job at all. Yet Japan’s low birthrates mean that what once was a staple of Japanese family life-taking care of one’s grandparents and great-grandparents-will no longer be a viable model at the scale the nation needs. By 2020, this is projected to increase to 29 percent and reach 39 percent by 2050.Īll of those long-living elderly will need caretakers. Today, 25 percent of Japan’s population is age 65 or older. Between 20, the number of Japanese citizens 65 years or older is expected to increase by 7 million. Japan’s current life expectancy is 80 years for men and 87 years for women and is expected to rise to 84 and 91, respectively, over the next 45 years. Japan is home to the longest-living citizens on earth and the biggest elderly population of any country-and it’s not getting any younger. The coming decade will see societies transform as humans learn to live alongside robots. Welcome your new job takers and caregivers. The Industries of the Future ONE HERE COME THE ROBOTS The Industries of the Future is “a riveting and mind-bending book” ( New York Journal of Books), a “must read” (Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach for America) regardless of “whether you follow these fields closely or you still think of Honda as a car rather than a robotics company” ( Forbes). Sharing insights from global leaders-from the founders of Google and Twitter to defense experts like David Petraeus-Ross reveals the technologies and industries that will drive the next stage of globalization. Ross blends storytelling and economic analysis to show how sweeping global trends are affecting the ways we live. In each of these realms, Ross addresses the toughest questions: How will we have to adapt to the changing nature of work? Is the prospect of cyberwar sparking the next arms race? How can the world’s rising nations hope to match Silicon Valley with their own innovation hotspots? And what can today’s parents do to prepare their children for tomorrow? He examines the fields that will most shape our economic future, including robotics and artificial intelligence, cybercrime and cybersecurity, the commercialization of genomics, the next step for big data, and the impact of digital technology on money and markets.
In The Industries of the Future, Ross provides a “lucid and informed guide” ( Financial Times) to the changes coming in the next ten years. From startup hubs in Kenya to R&D labs in South Korea, Ross has seen what the future holds. While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled to forty-one countries, exploring the latest advances coming out of every continent.
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The New York Times bestseller, from leading innovation expert Alec Ross, a “fascinating vision” ( Forbes) of what’s next for the world and how to navigate the changes the future will bring.
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