The newest employee at a Tokyo 7-Eleven works through the night without a single break. It silently stocks drinks and other products with mechanical precision, and cleans and mops the floor whenever ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used ...

KYOTO, Japan — The robot appeared in the hotel hallway as if out of nowhere, R2D2-sized, silently rolling, on a mission of undetermined nature from its robot overlords. A group of us Yankee travelers ...

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 ...

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 ...

* 80% would share data with doctors, but far fewer trust companies * Users value usefulness; developers //prioritize safety and privacy Japan, home to the world's ...

The U.S. is about to face a reckoning when it comes to its 65-and-older population outnumbering children for the first time. But other nations — including Japan — are facing an even steeper ratio of ...

Humanoid robots are currently dominating discussions in the robot market, with manufacturers from the US and China at the forefront of this competition. Surprisingly, traditional Japanese robotics ...