Robots come in a vast array of shapes and sizes. By definition, they're machines that perform automatic tasks and can be ...

Japanese increasingly accepting of robots taking part in everyday life as human population gets older.

Research in Japan shows the way toward tactile and proximity sensing in large soft robots Researchers developed an innovative robotic link with multimodal perception to help make human-robot ...

A new exhibition in Japan, titled "Android: What is Human?" features life-like robots that can act as receptionists and newscasters.

Still, however hospitable Japanese businesses have been to robots, they have learned that robots able to perform somewhat sophisticated tasks cost much more than human workers.

The new robot guides at a Tokyo museum, developed by Japanese robotics expert Hiroshi Ishiguro, look so eerily human and speak so smoothly they almost outdo people — almost.

At a time when virtually everyone’s afraid of losing their jobs to robots, one prominent Japanese company is charting a counter-intuitive and radically different course to the future — one in ...

Japanese researchers beseech the government to invest in a robot development plan, with the aim of creating a machine that has the artificial intelligence of a human child.

Removing the tiny eyes that pockmark potatoes is dull, repetitive and time-consuming work — perfect, it would seem, for robots in a country where the population is declining and workers are i… ...