The newest employee at a Tokyo 7-Eleven works through the night without a single break. It silently stocks drinks and other ...

At the time of its launch in 2015, Erica was dubbed not only the most beautiful but also the most intelligent android. Several other female-like robots have made headlines since then, but the Japanese ...

Japan begins robot trials in 7-Eleven amid massive worker shortage - Autonomous machines will stack shelves and clean windows ...

Beginning in the 1960’s, the rise of manufacturing for the automotive industry and the concomitant rise of industrial robots played an indispensable role in powering Japan’s economic miracle. By the ...

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 ...

It looks like a washing machine on wheels, but the bulky contraption vacuuming the hallways of a Tokyo high-rise is a robot. Japanese researchers hope that robots like this one will be the answer to a ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan — At the Robodex show here this week Japanese companies unwrapped platforms and supporting technology designed to make robots a mainstream consumer electronics market. Their goal is to ...