Facing a severe labour shortage, Japan has turned to automation in convenience stores by launching a revolutionary trial of ...

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

As the country needs to address labor shortages urgently, companies and workers are exploring how robots and humans can work together better for business efficiency.

Seven-Eleven Japan Co. on Tuesday began testing the use of several types of robots to handle tasks such as restocking shelves ...

An executive at US artificial-intelligence research company OpenAI says Japan is one of the world's top five markets for AI ...

Seven-Eleven Japan Co. on Tuesday introduced worker robots to one of its convenience stores in Tokyo, with the trial part of ...

OriHime, a 120-centimeter-tall robot, greets and directs patients at Musashino Hospital in the western Tokyo city of Kodaira, but its underlying main purpose is to help people far from the medical ...

Japan's food industry faces the same dire demographic problems plaguing the rest of the country. A shrinking and aging population has led to chronic labor shortages, but one startup believes robots ...

Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a maneuver used to change diapers ...

Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a maneuver used to change diapers ...

Humans are social creatures, but what happens when their social networks break down? Depression, cognitive decline, cortisol imbalances, and so on, and so on. None of it beneficial. Companion robots ...

Humanoid robots and unmanned convenience stores featuring robotic arms were unveiled in an international business fair ...