Japan's Forestry Industry Tests Robots
The yellow, four-legged robot walks up a grass slope, then marches through a forest full of twigs. It even mounts a stump and then climbs down unassisted. It’s part of a trial run by Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute and SoftBank Corp., using robots produced by Boston Dynamics. The goal: find a solution to Japan's chronic labor shortage in the forestry industry. If successful, it could increase reforestation in the country and help Japan achieve its carbon neutrality goals. Forestry work is mostly manual and today's workers are aging and declining in number, so researchers are hoping that the robots will be able to help humans monitor and maintain Japan's forests.

MHI Tests Using Robots at Mall
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems Ltd have begun testing of an automated valet parking system at a large-scale commercial facility near Tokyo. The system employs automated guided vehicle (AGV) robots, dubbed "Stan," manufactured by Stanley Robotics, a French venture-backed company. The event marks the first application of this type of autonomous vehicle handling system in a commercial complex in Japan.
Yakiniku Chain Introduces Vtuber Meat Delivery Robots
While use of robots in the service industry is by no means a new topic in Japan, there has been an observable uptick in gravitation towards it due to some preference for contactless customer-server interaction during the pandemic. An example of this has been server and delivery robots, as seen by one ramen chain's ramen robot staff. Popular yakiniku chain Watami is embracing the same trend with a twist. For a limited time, the nationwide grilled meat dining chain has been offering Vtuber server robots.

AI Robot Chef Leads Pasta Cooking in Restaurant
A fourth-generation AI chef in Japan can prepare pasta rapidly and serve customers on time and has worked at the restaurant for four years. The AI-chef was developed by the robotics firm TechMagic and the Japanese cafe owner Pronto Corporation. It can not only boil water and make pasta but also clean up afterward. "P-Robo" is the name of the robotic chef, as was initially reported by Food & Wine. With four pans at its disposal, it can quickly prepare and cook pasta meals to serve its clients on time.

How Humanlike Do We Want Robots to Be?
From the Six Million Dollar Man to RoboCop to the Terminator, Hollywood has produced a pantheon of memorable cyborgs. These hybrids tried to destroy society, or save it, according to their own goals. But they fascinate for the same reason; they blurred the lines between humans and robots in ways that have never happened in our history—but just might be part of our future. Fully functional cyborgs are still quite aways off, but scientists are pioneering a new way to commingle human and machine. A Japanese team has designed a robotic finger that’s covered with living skin grown from actual human skin cells. The process gives the robotic appendage an extremely lifelike look, not least because the skin can move and flex naturally as the three-joint digit does. To the touch, the skin also feels far more like human skin than silicone robot skins, and can even heal when cut or split. To create the lifelike appendage, Takeuchi and colleagues crafted a kind of skin-tissue cocktail, and then molded the material around the artificial finger to produce seamless and natural looking coverage.


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