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Following the steam technology revolution, the power technology revolution, and the information technology revolution, the fourth industrial revolution is using artificial intelligence and robots to create new businesses and services. All countries are actively making efforts and hope to embark on the cusp of a new revolution. Japan is no exception.
So how will this new technological revolution change our work and lifestyle? This is the first problem to be solved before we can make a series of reflections.
| Manufacturing
Fanuc Corp. is a leading global manufacturer of industrial robots and is dedicated to cutting-edge technology. It is headquartered in Yoshino, Japan. Kiyonori Inaba, general manager of the company, said that the company’s goal is to develop “robots that can talk to each other at workâ€.
Why does the robot need "dialogue"? For example, there may be many industrial robots on an automated production line. In order to work together, they need to recognize each other through dialogue.
Fanuc's robots can perform high-speed program operations. However, at present, they can only do tasks set within the program, and it is also difficult for two robots to complete one thing together.
If you can design robots that will learn and make judgments on their own, maybe even designing robots, they can all be done autonomously. In order to design and produce such a robot, the key technology lies in artificial intelligence.
In order to achieve its own goals, Fanuc and Preferred Network Inc., a Japanese start-up company established two years ago, reached a capital cooperation and commercial cooperation. In the past, Fanuc's strategy was to create its own, not to align with other companies. But the fourth-generation industrial revolution has changed the way they operate in business. On August 29th this year, Fanuc announced a partnership with 200 companies in the AI ​​field, including Hitachi Ltd. and Fujitsu Ltd.
| Automotive
At the same time, the automotive industry is also undergoing a major transformation.
Faced with the huge investment and strong leadership of new faces like Google and Tesla in driverless cars, the global auto giants feel pressure. Toyota Motor Corp. has announced that by 2020, it will invest up to 100 billion yuan in AI.
DeNA Co. of Tokyo is a Japanese mobile game giant. The company believes that due to the increasing aging of Japan, the reduction of the labor force is an indisputable fact. This will directly lead to the development of unmanned rental and driverless transportation. This area is the future direction of the company.
Hiroshi Nakajima, the company’s project manager, said:
Now, people in non-urban areas constantly ask us and hope that we can provide such services quickly.
| Service area
The use of machines instead of manpower does not only exist in the manufacturing industry.
For example, Henn na Hote, the world’s first employee, is entirely owned by a robot. The hotel is located in Nagasaki, Japan, in Huis Ten Bosch, using 16 kinds, 182 robots to meet the guests and cleaning the work of the room, while the number of operating personnel is only a few people. The hotel’s propaganda slogan is “The promise of evolutionâ€. It will soon be opening a similar hotel near the Disneyland area in Japan.
Although the first three industrial revolutions also had the phenomenon of machines replacing human power, the fourth industrial revolution brought greater impact on the labor market. In April this year, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, is one of Japan's administrative agencies) released data that if it does not want to deal with the impact of technological innovation on the labor force, by 2030, There will be 7.35 million jobs disappeared and the number involved will be 10% of the Japanese population.
Yutaka Matsuo, associate professor and AI expert at the University of Tokyo, said:
In the future, the content of people's work is likely to change. In any case, Japan should promote the application of AI in the production field and vigorously strengthen its competitive advantage. Japanese people are inherently flexible in doing things, so we should also respond to this kind of instant.
| Looking to the future
In the era of the fourth industrial revolution, the creation of new services and new services required the combination of AI, IoT (Internet of Things), and automation technologies (such as robotics).
The first industrial revolution originated from the invention of the steam engine in the 18th century; the second industrial revolution originated from the use of shops in the 19th century; the third industrial revolution originated from the popularization of computers in the late 20th century; and the fourth industrial revolution represented Rapid growth in industrial development.
The Japanese government predicts that by 2020, the fourth industrial revolution will create additional value of 30.0 trillion yuan.
At present, the leaders in this field have been several US companies. Google and other companies have cutting-edge technologies that can collect vast amounts of information on the Internet and make full use of them; IBM's Watson AI system is a leader in its class; GM leads other companies to set up a joint investigation. The agency hopes to apply IoT technology to all walks of life in the future.
Germany is not lagging behind. They have already entered Industry 4.0. By linking local companies and factories to the Internet of Things, they will digitize and intelligentize the supply, manufacture, and sales of information in production, and finally reach a fast, effective, and personalized product supply. .
SoftBank Group Corp. announced this year that it has acquired ARM Holdings for $32 billion, and one of the main businesses of the British company is to design semiconductors, the key material that makes up the Internet of Things.
The Japanese government believes that the fourth industrial revolution has played a key role in its development strategy. Japan will work together with the private sector and academic fields to enhance domestic competitiveness to defeat foreign competitors.
Via: the japan news
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