This got to be a pretty familiar trope with the iPhone in Japan: It’s just not advanced enough, since it’s missing things like bill payments, RFID, mobile TV and other crazy stuff. Analysts are saying ...

While Americans excel at producing deadly robots of militaristic persuasions, the Japanese are arguably the most competent designers of eerily human-like robots. Behold Kodomoroid and Otonaroid, two ...

BEIJING--What was billed as the world’s first android half-marathon was held here on April 19. The androids got off to a staggered start from 7:30 a.m. and the first non-human c ...

KYOTO, Japan — The robot appeared in the hotel hallway as if out of nowhere, R2D2-sized, silently rolling, on a mission of undetermined nature from its robot overlords. A group of us Yankee travelers ...

(For related stories on ageing Japan, click on [nT31627]) By Masayuki Kitano TOKYO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - It looks like a washing machine on wheels, but the bulky contraption vacuuming the hallways of a ...

TOKYO: Japanese researchers have unveiled a robot monk powered by AI that they say can dispense spiritual advice and maybe one day ease shortages of its human counterparts.

TOKYO (Reuters) - It looks like a washing machine on wheels, but the bulky contraption vacuuming the hallways of a Tokyo high-rise is a robot. Japanese researchers hope that robots like this one will ...