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김지은 A Japanese-led research team on Tuesday said it had made a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country's growing number of elderly.
Government-backed research institute Riken said the 158-centimetre (five-foot) RI-MAN humanoid can already carry a doll weighing 12 kilograms (26 pounds) and could be capable of bearing 70 kilograms within five years.
"We're hoping that through future study it will eventually be able to care for elderly people or work in rehabilitation," said Toshiharu Mukai, one of the research team leaders.
Covered by five millimetres (0.2 inches) soft silicone, RI-MAN is equipped with sensors that show it a body's weight and position.
The 100-kilogram (220-pound) robot can also distinguish eight different kinds of smells, can tell which direction a voice is coming from and uses powers of sight to follow a human face.
"In the future, we would like to develop a capacity to detect a human's health condition through his breath," Mukai said.
Japan is bracing for a major increase in needs for elderly care due to a declining birth rate and a population that is among the world's longest living.
The population declined in 2005 for the first time since World
* Active Aging Policy: Top Priority for Sustained Economic Growth
At a time when Korea's growing aging society has wreaked havoc on the domesti c job front, a key economic organization addressed the importance of rehiring the old to fill the employment vacuum.
The Korea Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KORCHAM) said Tuesday that the gove rnment's agenda to help out the retired would cost too much and rehiring the old could be one of the alternatives to work out the newly emergent economic and social issue.
In a report titled, 'The Aging Society and Ways To Meet Needed Manpower', KOR CHAM added that the Korean economy faces a double whammy with a low birth rat e and an aging society. Due to those factors, Korea cannot afford to keep sp onsoring the old, but capable labor force.
"Advanced nations which feature a slew of social security systems have faced depleted fund resources that resulted from abundant sponsorship of the old. Those nations have recently gone through a rude awakening and have opted to b ring the retired to the work force", according to a KORCHAM official. In order to cushion the possible negative economic consequence, however, KORC HAM emphasized that accomplishment-based wage systems should be adopted, incl uding wages based on job functions.
KORCHAM added that overall job training and recruitment programs should go th rough a face-lift, to become actively tailored to the needs of the old.
**For your tips**
Provide for one's old age: 노후생활에 대비하다.
Aging society: 고령화 사회.
Be against morals: 윤리에 어긋나다.
Question
1. What problems will occur in the aging society?
2. Tell us any solutions for the probable problems you talked above.
3. What do you think about the robot 'RI-MAN'?
4. Are you willing to keep the robot for your old age? Why or why not?
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