YOKOHAMA, Japan: Tokyo-based start-up Tsubame Industries has developed a 4.5m-tall, four-wheeled robot that looks like Mobile Suit Gundam from the wildly popular Japanese animation series, and it can ...

West Japan Railways has put a gigantic, 6-meter tall humanoid robot into operation to maintain train lines and perform other railway-specific tasks. However, the robot does not work autonomously, but ...

It resembles a malevolent robot from 1980s sci-fi but West Japan Railway’s new humanoid employee was designed with nothing more sinister than a spot of painting and gardening in mind. Starting this ...

TOKYO — It resembles a malevolent robot from 1980s sci-fi but West Japan Railway’s new humanoid employee was designed with nothing more sinister than a spot of painting and gardening in mind. Starting ...

Of het nu gaat om de zorg voor ouderen of voor kinderen, Japan moet in de toekomst steeds meer op robots vertrouwen. Robots die ouderen in bed leggen of suggereren dat ze naar de wc moeten, robots die ...

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 ...