At several restaurants in the heart of Tokyo, robotic felines glide effortlessly between tables, balancing trays of steaming ...

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 manoeuvre used to change diapers ...

Faced with an aging population and labor shortages, Japanese businesses are increasingly relying on service robots to ...

The experts warn Japan of a labor shortage clocking in at around 11 million within the next 15 years. Another institute ...

Humanoid robots that walk around on two legs have been attracting attention and money, but they are still a long way off from ...

Start-up firms in the Kansai region in western Japan and the Tokyo metropolitan area have developed robots that follow actions performed by human operators in real time, bringing droids far closer ...

The AI-driven Robot for Embrace and Care (AIREC) was designed by a team of researchers at Waseda University to carry out ...

Diplomatic Courier staff writer Stephanie Gull brings you three under–the–radar stories from Asia: robots in the Beijing ...

Japan is the world's most advanced aging society with a falling birth rate, dwindling working-age population and restrictive ...

The 150-kg (330 lb) artificial intelligence-driven humanoid robot called AIREC is a prototype future "caregiver" for Japan's rapidly ageing population and chronic shortage of aged-care workers.