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

The newest employee at a Tokyo 7-Eleven works through the night without a single break. It silently stocks drinks and other products with mechanical precision, and cleans and mops the floor whenever ...

TOKYO -- Thanks largely to rising demand in China, Japanese robot maker Fanuc is on a steady growth path, expecting a 36.5% rise in group operating profit in the current fiscal year through March, to ...

SoftBank's robotics arm said on Monday it will bring a food service robot developed by California-based Bear Robotics to Japan as restaurants grapple with labour shortages and a new socially distanced ...

Ok, get out your robot decoder rings. I got to go to a Robot show this weekend! A good friend of mine (Takuya-san) was not able to go to a robot show called ROBO_JAPAN. So, he asked me if I wanted to ...

TOKYO (AP) — Some robot-loving Japanese are tinkering with screwdrivers and motors instead of heading to the beach or hot springs during this nation’s "Golden Week" holidays. Among the robots on ...

Japanese are more accepting of robots because the native Shinto religion often blurs boundaries between the animate and inanimate, experts say. To the Japanese psyche, the idea of a humanoid robot ...