In Japan, robots are more than mere gadgetry--they're practically family. Unlike the U.S., where the icons of a dawning era of robots tend to be either the faceless, Frisbee-shaped, floor-scrubbing ...

HIGASHIOSAKA, Japan >> A group of small and midsize companies based in Higashiosaka, Osaka prefecture, has crowdfunded the development of a lunar exploration robot, which it hopes to launch by around ...

It looks like a washing machine on wheels, but the bulky contraption vacuuming the hallways of a Tokyo high-rise is a robot. Japanese researchers hope that robots like this one will be the answer to a ...

Beginning in the 1960’s, the rise of manufacturing for the automotive industry and the concomitant rise of industrial robots played an indispensable role in powering Japan’s economic miracle. By the ...

NAGASAKI, JAPAN -- The world's first hotel staffed almost entirely by robots is opening its doors full-time to guests this month, but CBS News correspondent Seth Doane has already been able to spend a ...

TOKYO -- At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust. Hooked up ...

At the time of its launch in 2015, Erica was dubbed not only the most beautiful but also the most intelligent android. Several other female-like robots have made headlines since then, but the Japanese ...

AI-powered robots are gradually being implemented into commercial kitchens in order to assist the foodservice workforce, at least with small but easily repeatable tasks like frying chips. A recent ...

To loosely quote Gwen Stefani: “This stuff is bananas—B-A-N-A-N-A-S.” Researchers in Japan have trained a robot to peel bananas. Reuters reports how Heecheol Kim, Yoshiyuki Ohmura, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi ...

TOKYO, April 6 – Robots in Japan are found on factory floors carrying out simple tasks or delivering food to restaurant patrons but researchers have now unveiled a robot capable of executing the ...