Nations of the world will be sending their most talented athletes to Tokyo in 2020 for the Olympic Games – but if Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gets his way, they might also be pitting robots against each other.
He said a robot Olympics would be a good way to show off advances in the field of robotics around the world.
“In 2020, I would like to gather all of the world’s robots and aim to hold an Olympics where they compete in technical skills,” Mr Abe said.
However, the US military has a robotics challenge in which robots battle to complete eight jobs, such as opening a valve or climbing a ladder.
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In March, a Swiss robotics laboratory announced the country will host an international competition in 2016 for athletes who use prosthetics and other mechanical aids.
Mr Abe is trying to jump-start his country’s economy and robotics could be one of its key drivers.He has created a task force to outline ways for Japan to triple the size of the industry to 2.4tn yen (£14tn).
He added: “We want to make robots a major pillar of our economic growth strategy.We would like to set up a council on making a robotic revolution a reality in order to aid Japan’s growth.”
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As for machines with more pragmatic uses, both Hitachi and Toshiba have unveiled robots capable of helping engineers work in radioactive environments like the Fukushima nuclear plant. Meanwhile, Japanese engineers at Wakata are also conducting tests with a small robot named ‘Kirobo,’ who is operating on the International Space Station as scientists experiment with developing an effective companion for lonely people.
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