This robot mascot for Tokyo’s 2020 Summer Olympics was unveiled by Toyota last year. The car giant will also reveal human assistance robots during the Games (Credit: Getty Images)
This police robot acts as eyes and ears for human officers in a different room. Countries like China and South Korea have expressed interest in such tech (Credit: Bryan Lufkin)
Critics call the Telenoid robot creepy, but government officials from around the world have visited this nursing home to see how it helps dementia patients (Credit: Bryan Lufkin)
Hiroshi Ishiguro, famous for creating a robot doppelganger of himself, is one of many that say the robotic solutions in Japan will soon apply everywhere (Credit: Bryan Lufkin)
日本ロボット:開発トレンド調査：BBC Worklife特集（動画）:
What the world can learn from Japan’s robots：
世界可以从日本的机器人中学到什么
BBC Worklife：新シリーズ
次世代/日本が、「明日/日本をどのように変えていくのか」を見てみましょう。
a respect for inanimate objects：
日本で、ロボットは愛されています。
日本のアニメ/漫画でも、ロボットは愛されるべきものとして､描かれています。
「神道では、自然と共生したり、無生物を尊ぶこと」が、極めて重要です。
BBC Worklife
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200205-what-the-world-can-learn-from-japans-robots