Concerned about Japan's aging workforce  a Japanese thinktank called the Machine Industry Memorial Foundation is proposing that robots can help fill the jobs of  3.5 million seniors to avert worker shortages as the country's  population shrinks.

Japan faces a 16 percent fall  in the size of its workforce by 2030 while the number of seniors is set to mushroom , the government estimates, raising concerns  about who will do the work in a country unused to, and unwilling to contemplate, large-scale immigration.

The thinktank says Japan could save 2.1 trillion yen ($21 billion) of elderly insurance payments in 2025 by using robots that monitor the health of older people, so they don't have to rely on human nursing care. The Foundation also claimed that caregivers would save more than an hour a day if robots helped look after children, the elderly and did some housework.

Robotic duties could include reading books out loud or helping bathe and change the elderly. A sort of  care providing Tamagotchi programmed to make captive pets of the elderly.

The Japanese government estimates that 40 percent of the population will be over 65 by 2055.

Perhaps someone will propose a robot to assist those who prefer suicide to this fucking  bleak future of machine human contact.

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