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The Japanese government has set a goal of placing 10 million robots driven by artificial intelligence into workplaces before 2040, hoping to offset a rapidly thinning workforce in its aging population.

By 2040, United Nations medium-variant estimates place Japan's population at 112,158,304, which is 6.2%…