Young adults in Japan have discovered a new medium for finding a husband or wife - robots. At a recent event in Tokyo, love-seeking men and women sat around a table with tiny bots interspersed between them. These tiny droids served as a messenger for each person to introduce themselves, since many said they felt'too anxious' to conduct a conversation on their own, according to The Japan News. Young adults in Japan have discovered a new medium for finding a husband or wife - robots. The event took place at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward, where 28 men and women between the ages of 25 and 39 convened in the hopes of finding a spouse.

At a warehouse in Tokyo's Ariake district once mainly staffed by people, robots are now doing the work of inspecting and sorting the clothing housed there by Japanese retailer Uniqlo. The company recently remodeled the existing warehouse with an automated system created in partnership with Daifuku, a provider of material handling systems. Now that the system is running, the company revealed during a walkthrough of the new facility, Uniqlo has been able to cut staff at the warehouse by 90%. The warehouse can now also operate 24 hours a day. The robotic system is designed to transfer products delivered to the warehouse by truck, read electronic tags attached to the products and confirm their stock numbers and other information. When shipping, the system wraps products placed on a conveyor belt in cardboard and attaches labels to them.

Last week, the robots finally came for that which we humans hold most dear: Our ability to write the Great [insert country or region here] Novel. The Japan News reported, and various American outlets picked up, the news that a short novel co-written by a computer program and homo sapiens had almost won a literary prize. The prize, the Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, accepts entries written by robots, though this was reportedly the first year that any such entries had been submitted. Of several submissions written with AI programs, one entry scored a remarkable victory: It made it through a single round of screening. Okay, so "nearly won," as Bustle put it, might be a slight exaggeration of how well this artificial novelist performed.