The newest employee at a Tokyo 7-Eleven works through the night without a single break. It silently stocks drinks and other ...

Japan begins robot trials in 7-Eleven amid massive worker shortage - Autonomous machines will stack shelves and clean windows ...

Japanese are more accepting of robots because the native Shinto religion often blurs boundaries between the animate and inanimate, experts say. To the Japanese psyche, the idea of a humanoid robot ...

The Kanematsu network in Japan will be the first international expansion of Intuition Robotics and ElliQ outside the U.S.

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at China’s advance in decarbonisation, India’s efforts to get a slice ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - In August, a robot vaguely resembling a kangaroo will begin stacking sandwiches, drinks and ready meals on shelves at a Japanese convenience store in a test its maker, Telexistence, ...