Kawasaki’s robot goat designed to ease Japan’s labour shortage due to an ageing population

Japan is a country that values technology while remaining true to its traditions. Because of the country’s lengthy aversion to accepting immigrants, aided by its low birth rate, Japan’s population is rapidly ageing. Even as the country is taking steps to relax its tough immigration policies, it continues to be plagued by a shortage of labour. Now, Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries, a multinational company known for its industrial machines and heavy equipment have developed a robot that it believes will help with the country’s labour shortage. And it is a quadruped robot, i.e., it is shaped like a four-footed animal, namely a goat.