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 ...

Two female robots spoke to the audience in Japanese, and the younger android stated that she hoped she could have her own TV program one day, then went on to flawlessly read a news story about a ...

Astro Boy — or Tetsuwan Atomu in Japan — is a superhero in comics, television shows and movies, a kind of android equivalent of Pinocchio who fights for peace between robots and humans.

A 400-year-old Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, is using a $1 million humanoid to reach a younger generation, but foreigners are repulsed by it.

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.

But the adorable android - first released in 2016 and only available in Japan - does not come cheap, with regular models priced between US$820 (S$1,090) and US$2,250.

MOSCOW, December 14. /TASS/. Russia’s Android Technology Company and Japan’s GITAI startup plan to create a robot to operate on the lunar surface, the Russian company’s executive director ...

While the West tends to see robots and artificial intelligence as a threat, Japan takes a more philosophical view.