Osaka Robotics Information

The size of the robot market, which encompasses the medical, welfare and daily living fields, is expected to reach US$7.7 billion (about 900 billion yen) by 2010. Surely, Japan, with its state-of-the-art next-generation RT, will appear to foreign RT-related companies as a very promising market. (Based on data from the Japan Robot Association)

The Osaka Metropolitan area (KANSAI) is filled with robotics research centers and companies includ including Osaka University, ATR, Panasonic and others. Like Silicon Valley for business—Osaka will soon be known as the capital of the robotics world.

A new column from Osaka's Robot Laboratory Leader--Shu Ishiguro--discusses the latest developments in Robot technology. Click here to read the column.