Japan’s university system has long centred on engineering faculties led by manufacturing, resulting in a relative shortage of ...

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Long before the movies, the Transformers franchise began over four decades as a collaboration between Japanese toymakers and Western comic books.

The government now considers dementia one of its most urgent policy challenges. The Health Ministry projects that ...

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 ...

Japan is turning to robots and AI tracking tech as dementia cases rise and thousands of older residents go missing each year.

TOKYO — At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust. Hooked up ...

TOKYO >> Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency plans to deploy unmanned firefighting robots and other specialized vehicles as part of its efforts to enhance the equipment and machinery used by ...

A nationwide survey in Japan shows divides in acceptance of home-care robots. Surprisingly, openness and trust, rather than age, determine whether people are willing to let robots into their homes and ...

But the tone and pizzazz of IREX has always been provided by the humanoids. It’s a somehow thrilling spectacle to see robots ...

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One approach my group is exploring is giving robots a degree of “local intelligence” in their sensorised bodies. Humans ...