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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The West Japan Rail Company (JR West) has unveiled a new futuristic worker that’s tasked with infrastructure jobs considered too risky for humans. And people? It’s a giant robot humanoid that looks ...