Coming together like Voltron, four Japanese companies are joining to step up the competition with South Korea in the field of robotics. Try and quell your immediate fears of a Matrix or Terminator-esque takeover though, most of these robots will mainly be serving the young and elderly sans-humanoid form, at least for now. All this hoopla seems to be coming from a recent “robot legislation” law that passed just recently in South Korea, so perhaps much of our future coverage of the industry here at New York-Tokyo will be coming out of Seoul. Either way, things are about to get veeerrrrry interesting in the field of robotics.

Japan Robot Startups Join Efforts (via Yahoo)

By Jesse Mann