Japan’s population is the oldest in the ... and also the great potential for this type of off-road robotics technology to be applied, especially for outdoor orchards, which are also very, ...

Japan wants to use the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games beginning on July 27 to showcase service robot technology, with organizers planning to use robots built by Toyota Motor and Panasonic Corp.

Japanese company Nisseieco Co. Ltd. unveiled a "robot priest" they have programmed to help with tasks at Buddhist temples, including the reading of Buddhist scripture during funeral ceremonies.

Using a phone, tablet or even just technology to track their ... Since the golden age of Japan’s post-war economic boom, robots have been deployed to improve efficiency in almost every industry ...

Softbank plans to market humanoid robots to Japanese consumers and sees them as a mass-market technology, like personal computers and smartphones.

Kimiya Ishikawa, chief executive of Silver Wing Social Care Corporation which runs Shintomi, said Japan's affinity for technology and the familiarity of robots in popular culture, such as cartoons ...

Japanese researchers combined artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics technology to develop a fully automated system to find the best culturing method for turning induced pluripotent stem (iPS ...

Kimiya Ishikawa, chief executive of Silver Wing Social Care Corporation which runs Shintomi, said Japan's affinity for technology and the familiarity of robots in popular culture, such as cartoons ...

I traveled a lot around the Japanese countryside,” he says, “You can tell how much difficulty (it) is having with the labor shortage. You see many abandoned houses … The farmers are clearly getting ...

Medicaroid’s hinotori™ Surgical Robot System became the first robotic-assisted surgery system born in Japan to win regulatory approval from the country’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

This technology is costly ... another early area of use for robots. Japan’s startup Cyberdyne is one of the pioneers in this field. The university spinoff developed an exoskeleton, for instance ...