Japanese IT company to start AI robot rental business

This dog-shaped robot that’s laying on its back...is able to get back up by itself.

It is equipped with a high-performance AI, which learns through trial and error and is able to perform a variety of movements.

Leading IT company GMO Internet Group is launching a new business in which it will procure AI-based robots and rent them out to customers for their own use.

Kumagai Masatoshi, Founder, Chairman, and Group CEO, GMO Internet Group: We hope that smart AI-based robots will fill shortages in the workforce.

The company is listening to demand for such robots in a wide range of industries, including logistics and agriculture.