Visitors to Japan Robot Week 2014 at Tokyo Big Sight can order their coffee from a robot.

Robot Launch Pad’s insight: Japan is putting a lot of focus on robotics in their ‘abenomics’ looking to grow the nation’s economy and be at forefront of robotics developments in every sector.

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