Japan also recently debuted a robot that could babysit. The camera zoomed in on the hands of the older android a few times, and all I could imagine was those cold silicon hands around my neck as I ...

World’s “Most Beautiful Android,” a Japanese Robot, Can Now Also Laugh With You Published: 16 Sep 2022, 02:53 UTC • By: Otilia Drăgan 8 photos ...

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 ...

The Japanese have been interested in robots since the 18th century, when they invented Karakuri, a mechanical wind-up man who carried tea to tables, Robertson said. “Robots are often perceived in the ...

Osaka, Japan – Robots able to display human emotion have long been a mainstay of science fiction stories. Now, Japanese researchers have been studying the mechanical details of real human facial ...

Engineers in Japan are trying to get robots to imitate that particularly human expression — the smile. They have created a face mask from human skin cells and attached it to robots with a novel ...

Humanoid robots, which move almost as naturally as humans do, are fulfilling an increasingly broad range of roles in Japan. Behind their popularity are improvements in sound and image recognition ...