Japan’s population is the oldest in the world, with few young people working in agriculture. But now its farmers are getting ...

The robot has been specifically developed to help provide pipeline inspection and repair work. It is also a significant ...

Inspired by a distinct and quintessential feline behavior called bunting, where cats rub their heads against objects or ...

This blond, "female" robot named Aria is powered by AI for her conversation skills, with 17 motors driving her facial ...

Yusuke Abe, a developer at SoftBank robotics, explained what Pepper could do, and why it was proving popular in Japan ... a humanoid robot that looked and sounded like a real person.

Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo ... To explain, the mecha genre is broadly split into two sub-genres: real robot and super robot. Real robot is the military-esque ...

He did not say when robots would read the news for real. Robots are big business in Japan. Many companies spend a lot of money on research and development to make robots better and better. The ...

Japan now has two hotels run almost entirely by robots. The Hen'na Hotels are owned by low-cost travel agency H.I.S. Co. The hotels are in Nagasaki and Tokyo, Japan. There are robots to help you ...

Japanese company Nisseieco Co. Ltd. unveiled a "robot priest" they have programmed to help with tasks at Buddhist temples, including the reading of Buddhist scripture during funeral ceremonies.

The semi-autonomous robot is called Adam and is able ... size and a mini version — and testing them in real-life scenarios on farms around Japan. The larger Adam is 70 centimeters high and ...