TOKYO -- Japanese convenience store chain FamilyMart will introduce remote-controlled robots to stock shelves in its stores, Nikkei has learned.

Japanese konbini: Eternal beacons of hope. Source of wacky culinary delights. Home of the ever-lingering fax machine and, now, humanoid robot staff. This summer, convenience store chain FamilyMart ...

Remote work is expanding into many other areas besides office work. Robots and remote-control technology make a greater range of tasks possible, from stocking convenience stores, to operating heavy ...

Sony AI Inc and avatarin Inc, an ANA Group company, have reached a basic agreement to work together to develop next-generation remote control robots by combining the AI and robotics technology of Sony ...

TOKYO -- Japanese startups are getting ready to deploy a small army of remote-controlled robots in the workplace.

Two years ago, Tesla’s Optimus prototype was an underwhelming mess of exposed wires that could only operate in a carefully controlled stage presentation. Last night, Tesla’s “We, Robot” event featured ...

KUMAMOTO -- The education board of this southwest Japan city will launch an effort to tackle school absenteeism using in-class robot avatars that allow students to engage remotely in classes and ...

Nashik: The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC), in order to ensure narrow lanes do not prove to be a hindrance while dealing with fire incidents, has decided to procure remote-controlled fire fighting ...

As part of a new collaborative project, researchers from the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and a consortium of ...