In Japan there’s an experimental coffee house called DAWN Avatar Cafe where you are served by an avatar robot and you can even converse with it while having your coffee or light snacks. Behind the ...

A humanoid robot can relay video and touch sensations to a person wearing haptic feedback gloves and a virtual reality (VR) headset hundreds of kilometres away, offering a way for people to attend ...

Masato Nagahiro and an OriHime avatar robot he remotely controls using a computer are seen in a photo provided by the individual. TOKYO -- A single encounter can change a life. For 30-year-old Masato ...

BERLIN - Joshua Martinangeli, 7, is too ill to go to school. But the German student can still interact with his teacher and classmates through an avatar robot that sits in class in his place and sends ...

A café partially staffed by robots recently opened in downtown Tokyo, giving guests the opportunity to live out a sci-fi fantasy. It also provides jobs to those with physical limitations or ...

KAWASAKI -- Some people with serious physical disabilities are aspiring to volunteer in the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics and Paralympics with the help of "avatar robots." "I want to show to the ...

Researchers from the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne say their experiment has brought them a step closer to helping immobile patients to interact with their surroundings using a robot ...

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The Avatar program will develop interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bi-pedal machine and allow it to act as the soldier’s surrogate. These ...