Robot industry is one proof that Japan will fail!! Japanese robots are beautiful, but useless; Chinese robots are weird, but useful. Japan has spent 20 years on robot, still no business; China just started R&D on robot 10 years ago, a solid business. Japanese beautiful robots are not as important as those toys such as iRobot in business sense. This just shows a failed mindset of Japanese. This is how Japan with so called advanced technology failed in computer, communication and information industry. Market decides products, not so called technology.
Toshiba has many so called advanced technology, possibly a leader in robot technology too. But still a money-losing company. You make cool products, but NO MARKET!!
Chinese products cheap but useful; Japanese products expensive and useless. Japanese always likes to add many useless features and claims that they are technology advanced. But customers are with limited budgets and they do not need those features. Especially when cheap Chinese products even beats expensive Japanese products in the main function. You know what happens!!
The comparison of Chinese products vs. Japanese products can be seen in foods. Chinese foods are more delicious than Japanese foods and we use big bowls for foods. Japanese foods are using delicate utensils. A tiny Japanese foods is more expensive than high volume Chinese foods. For most people, deliciousness and volume are the most important , they will buy Chinese foods; Only fans with love of delicate Japanese utensils will buy Japanese foods at such an expensive. That's why except in ASEAN with many Japanese fans, Chinese products beat Japanese products heavily.
