World Robot Summit
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The World Robot Summit Warm-Ups Get Underway The World Robot Summit 2018 (WRS2018), an international competition for robots, was held at the Tokyo Big Sight for 5 days from October 17 to 21, 2018. The World Robot Summit, or WRS, is a major event for robotics hosted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), with the goal of accelerating the social implementation of robots amidst a rapidly aging society, and the 2018 summit served as a precursor to the main competition (WRS2020) set to take place in 2020, the same year Japan will host the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic […]
There are only two years to go until the opening of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, and preparations are in full swing. There is also another big international event which will be held in Japan around the same time that should not be forgotten. That is an international robotics event, the World Robot Summit (WRS) which is hosted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). Although various international robotics exhibitions have been organized, the WRS is the first international robotics exhibition organized by a nation. The WRS’s aim is “to promote a world where robots and humans […]