As the country needs to address labor shortages urgently, companies and workers are exploring how robots and humans can work together better for business efficiency.

In Japan, robots are more than mere gadgetry--they're practically family. Unlike the U.S., where the icons of a dawning era of robots tend to be either the faceless, Frisbee-shaped, floor ...

Robots are serving customers in Japanese department stores and banks, as well as building advanced machines for the nation’s manufacturers. Has the future already arrived in Japan, or is the ...

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… ...

Researchers in Japan and Switzerland have revealed a giant robotic hand that could transform how communities prepare for and ...

Japan's service robot industry is set to triple in size by 2030. The country has become a hotbed for service robotics—from restaurants to nursing homes. ...

In Japan, a group of educational robots will serve as classroom dunces, intentionally making mistakes that a helpful student can correct.

TOKYO — Japan, home of the “kawaii” cult of cute, has always had a soft spot for companion robots, in contrast to the more industrial or mechanical types used for assembly lines, surgeries ...

Japan's population is plunging — can they fill the void with robots? Japan's robot revolution was explored during "CBSN: On Assignment" -- a new primetime documentary series which premiered ...

But Japan’s leaders have good reason to pin their hopes on advances in robotics. Industrial robots helped turn Japan into a manufacturing powerhouse in the 1970s and 1980s.

Japan's Suidobashi Heavy Industry hurled a few insults at the American team upon accepting a challenge for the teams' giant robots to battle.

While robots are a long way from matching human emotional complexity, Japan is perhaps the closest to a future where humans and intelligent robots routinely live side by side and interact socially.