This article is part of a series of articles based on common questions in robotics. The previous article dealt with the question: What is a robot? Robots are machines designed to perform tasks – ...

A person on a vacation with his family works remotely from a campsite in the town of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, on Aug. 23, 2019. (Mainichi/Akane Imamura) The Mainichi answers some common ...