TOKYO -- At Gusto, a casual restaurant in Shinjuku popular with families and foreign tourists, a squat, cat-eared robot glides slowly through the extra-wide aisles. Roughly the height of a young child ...

Have you got “cat’s tongue“? Lots of people do, particularly in Japan, where the term, known as nekojita in Japanese, is used to describe people who are sensitive to hot food or drinks. While those ...

Since the dawn of the personal cleaning robot, people have been taping things to the top of them to increase their functionality. There’s the classic DJ Roomba, where you stick a boombox or speaker on ...