Billionaire Masayoshi Son wants to create Android for robots. A unit of Son's SoftBank Corp. has unveiled an operating system that purports to offer a way to control robots just as Google Inc.'s ...

Japan has long held a fascination with robots and their application in daily life. The country remains at the forefront of the robotics industry, in no small part due to the billions of yen’s worth in ...

Companion robots may be able to provide emotional support increasingly missing from people's lives. While such a scenario sounds like a sci-fi pipe dream, 21st century Japan is developing the ...

This project attempted to expand the field of activity of such conversational robots and has resulted in the development of a child-like android “ibuki”, which has equipped with wheels that could ...

AN AI-powered android nurse shows its bot-side manner as it gets hands-on with a patient. The test demonstrated how medical robots could be used to help the elderly with basic functions such as cha… ...

Robots are by and large given an easy ride in Japan. Most people like them, an esteemed Tokyo University robotics professor once told me, and the rest don’t actively dislike them. And as Japan ...

Sushi-making robots, playmate robots, robotic wombs, sex robots and babysitting robots — all are either already on the market or being developed in Japan. “Robots have become incorporated into daily ...

Employing all-purpose robots endowed with artificial intelligence as a workforce in the manufacturing industry is the solution to staving off any impending labor shortage in Japan, SoftBank CEO ...

Japan has turned to technology to address this issue, integrating advanced devices and robots into care homes to support both residents and caregivers.