This got to be a pretty familiar trope with the iPhone in Japan: It's just not advanced enough, since it's missing things like bill payments, RFID, mobile ...

Nami Hamaura says she feels less lonely working from home thanks to her singing companion Charlie, one of a new generation of cute and clever Japanese robots whose sales are booming in the pandemic.

A professor in Japan has created android robots that make the plot of Will Smith’s “I, Robot” possible. The newest exhibition showing at The National Museum of Emerging Science an… ...

Robots are all after our jobs! If you're not convinced entirely yet, then Japan's latest technological marvel just might. Japanese scientists have revealed to the public a new kind of eerily human ...

Engineers in Japan are trying to get robots to imitate that particularly human expression — the smile. They have created a face mask from human skin cells and attached it to robots with a novel ...

A recent Japanese study tried to teach an advanced android how and when to respond to shared laughter - a social skill for advancing human-robot interaction ...

The fascination with weird and wonderful robots at the Android: What is a Human? exhibition continues, as Japan unveils the world's first android newscasters.

Culture Elderly storytelling android debuts in Japan A robot copy of Beicho Katsura III, a master comic storyteller in Japan, takes the stage in Osaka and gets a few laughs.

Uber Eats customers in Japan can soon have an autonomous, AI-powered robot deliver their food on the streets of Tokyo.

A plan to connect robots with home-based students via a tablet could boost kids' confidence and eventually help them return to classrooms, officials say.