{"id":73941,"date":"2017-11-26T01:42:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T09:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/japan-is-embracing-nursing-care-robots"},"modified":"2017-12-02T12:01:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T20:01:45","slug":"japan-is-embracing-nursing-care-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/japan-is-embracing-nursing-care-robots","title":{"rendered":"Japan is embracing nursing-care robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-is-embracing-nursing-care-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan leads the world in advanced robotics. Many of its firms see great potential in \u201ccarerobos\u201d that look after the elderly. Over a quarter of the population is over 65, the highest proportion of any country in the OECD. Care workers are in desperately short supply, and many Japanese have a cultural affinity with robots.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>AT SHINTOMI nursing home in Tokyo, men and women sit in a circle following exercise instructions before singing along to a famous children\u2019s song, \u201cYuyake Koyake\u201d (\u201cThe Glowing Sunset\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21731677-around-5000-nursing-care-homes-across-country-are-testing-robots-japan-embracing\">https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21731677-around-5000...-embracing<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan leads the world in advanced robotics. Many of its firms see great potential in \u201ccarerobos\u201d that look after the elderly. Over a quarter of the population is over 65, the highest proportion of any country in the OECD. Care workers are in desperately short supply, and many Japanese have a cultural affinity with robots. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73941","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74099,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73941\/revisions\/74099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}