"Japanese Economic News" The latest report, announced that Matsushita Electric has officially entered the field of medical care with the robot, from the current year (April 1 this year - March 31 next year) and distributed for sale to help pharmacists robot IDUs.

In January this year, Panasonic announced that it would strengthen the development of robot, to enter the business field, the official launch of the medical robot started the business in the first shot. It is reported that this robot can be documented with a doctor in patients with symptoms and drug use associated with electronic medical record card. Pharmacist in accordance with instructions issued by the data to the robot, the robot will be admitted to the injection of drugs to each patient. Matsushita expects sales in the first year of such a robot up to 10 billion yen (one U.S. dollars approximately ¥ 95).

Reported that previously a subsidiary of Matsushita Group to carry out only some of the hospitals for medical robot business, Panasonic will be the future of the business of the group developed into one of the areas of income generation. Matsushita also plans to develop before and after the year 2015 to help the elderly walk and mobile robots, in addition to outside, it will invest in overseas markets such as Europe and the United States. The year 2015, Panasonic robot sales are expected this year is expected to reach sales of 30 times, that is, the size of ¥ 30,000,000,000.

With the deepening economic recession, exacerbated by sluggish demand, the Japanese major companies are actively developing new business areas, to find a new growth point, Toyota also started the development of robots.

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