{"id":224600,"date":"2025-11-06T01:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/japans-vision-for-ai-robots-to-empower-humans"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:02:25","slug":"japans-vision-for-ai-robots-to-empower-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/japans-vision-for-ai-robots-to-empower-humans","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s vision for AI robots to empower humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japans-vision-for-ai-robots-to-empower-humans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if instead of replacing us in our jobs, AI-enabled robots were to help us become the best versions of ourselves? Prompted by the ageing crisis and a projected shortfall of carers, a research team in Japan is seeking to create a new robotic paradigm, where AI-enabled robots help us to help ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 2050, I\u2019d like to realize a smarter, more inclusive society, where everyone will be able to use AI robots anytime and anywhere,\u201d says Yasuhisa Hirata, a mechanical engineer at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d42473-025-00226-3#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>. Hirata is the project manager on the \u2018Adaptable AI-enabled Robots to Create a Vibrant Society\u2019 project of the Japanese Government\u2019s Moonshot Research and Development Program.<\/p>\n<p>He envisages future AI-enabled robots functioning somewhere between a carer and a coach \u2014 a tool that can provide support, but which makes users feel as though they are performing tasks independently rather than being assisted by a robot. Such tasks might range from people standing up out of a chair, lifting a heavy object, or expressing themselves through dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if instead of replacing us in our jobs, AI-enabled robots were to help us become the best versions of ourselves? Prompted by the ageing crisis and a projected shortfall of carers, a research team in Japan is seeking to create a new robotic paradigm, where AI-enabled robots help us to help ourselves. \u201cBy 2050, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1490,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-government","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}