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.

El Segundo based Shinkei Systems Corp. uses robots and AI to automate ikejime, a centuries-old Japanese fish processing ...

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

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 ...

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METI fears Japanese robotics may succumb to the so-called Galapagos syndrome—the technological phenomenon in Japan whereby electronic devices for the domestic market thrive, while the foreign ...

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.

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

Nearly two years before Japanese fashion titan Yusaku Maezawa embarked on his recent tourist visit to the International Space Station, he made global headlines for launching a worldwide search for ...

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 ...

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 … ...