‘No one’s raising their hand’: Japan’s labor crisis is making the case for robots taking the jobs you don’t want

Japan's Ministry of Economy is building a domestic physical AI sector targeting 30% of the global market by 2040, deploying humanoid robots to fill 600,000+ unfilled jobs in logistics, factories, and elder care. Bank of America projects humanoid robots will outnumber cars by 2060, with 47% of industrial entrepreneurs seeing robotics as their biggest commercial opportunity.