At first glance, it’s just another Japanese robot experiment. But this café is different. The robots are controlled in ...

TOKYO (AP) — The Humanoids Summit Tokyo opened Thursday, featuring advanced robotics, including mechanical hands capable of threading needles and dancing robots designed for entertainment and delivery ...

Physical AI is emerging as one of the next major industrial battlegrounds, with Japan’s push driven more by necessity than anything else. With workforces shrinking and pressure mounting to sustain ...

The robot pauses at the edge of the room as an engineer checks its sensors. Then, with a soft mechanical hum, this humanoid machine begins to move. It lifts a mannequin from a bed, slowly and ...

Tim Hornyak, author of “Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots,” who was at the event, categorized it as the so-called “Galapagos syndrome,” referring to how innovative Japanese ...

Japanese technology giants SoftBank Group Corp., Sony Corp. and NEC Corp. are teaming up with Honda Motor Co., Ltd. on a new artificial intelligence joint venture that has a single goal: to build a ...

Tokyo's Haneda Airport is set to trial the use of humanoid robotics in ground services from May. The trial comes as Japan battles chronic labor issues. Analysts said robots still require human ...