Toyota is facing up to a growing problem in its home market of Japan. The population is growing increasingly old and the birth rate has dropped to very low levels. And if Japaneses millennials are like their US counter parts, the market for cars will shrink greatly. So Toyota turn this bad news into opportunity to develop robots for the elderly.
With everyone in the industrial world living longer and added to that fact at sometime in our lives we will all need assistance. Toyota could be on to a Hugh new product line.
