Japan has long held a fascination with robots and their application in daily life. The country remains at the forefront of the robotics industry, in no small part due to the billions of yen’s worth in ...

Aimed at boosting productivity despite labor shortages, a new group will train advisers to help companies introduce and use ...

Billionaire Masayoshi Son wants to create Android for robots. A unit of Son's SoftBank Corp. has unveiled an operating system that purports to offer a way to control robots just as Google Inc.'s ...

Compact robots that can rest on human shoulders are guiding tourists around Tokyo, but their creator is touting a more ...

OriHime, a 120-centimeter-tall robot, greets and directs patients at Musashino Hospital in the western Tokyo city of Kodaira, but its underlying main purpose is to help people far from the medical ...

After a stagnant period, Japan’s robot industry is getting a second wind. One researcher at the forefront of R&D in this field is Shimizu Masaharu of the Chiba Institute of Technology. Here he shares ...

In ERATO ISHIGURO symbiotic human-robot interaction project, a multimodal conversation control system and a multi-robot conversation control system were developed to promote a robot with a higher ...

I don't think the Taliban have anything to worry about at this time. Lots of high-tec spare parts up for grabs were they to be deployed, and you can hear them so far away! That said, it would be ...

It doesn’t take long for it to feel like the diminutive RoBoHoN robot is showing off. Not only does it walk, talk, recognise and respond to what you say. It has a projector in its head, so it can show ...

Previous studies have reported that the adoption of robotic technologies in industry reduces both employment and wages. This column examines the experience of Japan, which is unique due to early ...

The mechanical dolls of the Edo period, called karakuri ningyō, were the starting point of Japan’s love affair with robots. The intricate clockwork motors inside dolls create playful, realistic ...