Japanese researchers have created humanoid robots that can walk and run, and some with faces that mimic emotions with startling accuracy. Abe foresees robots helping out in nursing homes and hotels.

A humanoid robot, Xiao He, has been positioned to provide multilingual support, answering queries and assisting journalists ...

Teams from 16 countries are competing in a range of sports including football, athletics and dance as part of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, China.

Humanoid robots have showcased their talents at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. The ...

“But no other companies outside of Japan are conspicuous at present” in the drive to bring the 'bots mainstream. The image in Japan, largely inspired by the cartoon culture, is of robots serving as ...

The World Humanoid Robot Games, an international sports competition for human-form robots, opened in Beijing on Thursday.

Researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology, Waseda University, and Fujitsu have developed a novel way to make robots ...

Japanese companies have been developing humanoid robots for decades. Here's a look at some of the best-known ones.

On the left, according to Retrolicious, "Yasutaro Mitsui poses with his own steel humanoid, Tokyo, Japan, in 1932." And on the right, Hiroshi Ishiguru ...

More than 500 humanoid robots in 280 teams from 16 countries – including Japan, Germany and the US – were expected to compete ...