A wearable "third arm" for construction workers is among the latest innovations under development in Panasonic Corp.'s burgeoning collaboration with academia as it seeks to make robots an increasing part of people's lives in aging Japan.Panasonic already has knowhow in the use of robots in manufacturing, but has reached out to academia on robots that can safely assist with everyday human tasks given the wide range of technologies involved, such as image analysis, voice recognition and artificial intelligence."Robots previously had the purpose of facilitating automation in the manufacturing …READ FULL ARTICLE
