The new robot guides at a Tokyo museum look so eerily human and speak so smoothly they almost outdo people – almost. Japanese robotics expert Hiroshi Ishiguro, an Osaka University professor, says they ...

Watch the video above: Robots revealed in Japan are eerily human-like. TOKYO – The new robot guides at a Tokyo museum look so eerily human and speak so smoothly they almost outdo people — almost.

The new robot guides at a Tokyo museum look so eerily human and speak so smoothly they almost outdo people — almost. Japanese robotics expert Hiroshi Ishiguro, an Osaka University professor, says they ...

Toyota Motor Corp.'s Kirobo Mini, a palm-size robot that is designed to provide companionship to people, is scheduled to hit the shelves in Japan this winter. Photo: Toyota Motor ...

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 ...

Japan’s population is the oldest in the world, with a third aged over 65, and one in 10 aged over 80, due to a combination of low fertility rates and high life expectancy. This has a direct effect on ...

A Japanese electronics maker has released a new trilingual vacuum cleaner that even knows a hip, humorous dialect. It looks just like iRobot's Roomba vacuuming machine, except the new circular roaming ...