A giant humanoid robot developed by robotics company 'Man-Machine Synergy Effectors', West Japan Railway Company and Nippon Signal, was shown to visitors at Japan Robot Week on Sep. 18. The robot has ...

Researchers in Japan and Switzerland have revealed a giant robotic hand that could transform how communities prepare for and recover from natural disasters. Built through a collaboration between ...

Robots are by and large given an easy ride in Japan. Most people like them, an esteemed Tokyo University robotics professor once told me, and the rest don’t actively dislike them. And as Japan’s ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Tokyo-based start-up Tsubame Industries has developed a 4.5-metre-tall (14.8-feet), four-wheeled robot that looks like "Mobile Suit Gundam" from the wildly popular Japanese ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - They have been popularized in movies, television and video games, but giant fighting robots still haven’t left the realm of science fiction. That will soon change. Megabots Inc., an ...

From the receptionist that does the check-in and check-out to the porter that's an automated trolley taking luggage up to the room, this hotel in southwestern Japan, aptly called Weird Hotel, is ...