Japan is turning to robots and AI tracking tech as dementia cases rise and thousands of older residents go missing each year.

At several restaurants in the heart of Tokyo, robotic felines glide effortlessly between tables, balancing trays of steaming ...

KYOTO, Japan — The robot appeared in the hotel hallway as if out of nowhere, R2D2-sized, silently rolling, on a mission of undetermined nature from its robot overlords. A group of us Yankee travelers ...

Fanuc and Nvidia are working together to build AI-powered industrial robots that can understand voice commands and operate ...

Picture a robot. What comes to mind? Perhaps a droid from Star Wars or The Jetsons: a machine that can move, speak and perform tasks all by itself. Or maybe your imagination jumps to humanoid robots à ...

Japanese are more accepting of robots because the native Shinto religion often blurs boundaries between the animate and inanimate, experts say. To the Japanese psyche, the idea of a humanoid robot ...

Humanoid robots are currently dominating discussions in the robot market, with manufacturers from the US and China at the forefront of this competition. Surprisingly, traditional Japanese robotics ...

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--China's adoption of robots continues at a rapid pace: The country has surpassed Germany and Japan in the ratio of robots to factory workers, taking third ...

Home-care robots hold significant potential in empowering older adults. Researchers from Chiba University, Japan, assess factors influencing the willingness to use home-care robots among caregivers ...

TOKYO -- At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust. Hooked up ...