Inventor Kentaro Yoshifuji’s robots allow people to work at the Dawn cafe from anywhere in the world – ‘teleportation’ ...

Still, as a call to arms, I expect Musk’s enthusiasm to resonate loudly in Europe. Labour shortages, demographic decline and ...

This study focused on Japan, where these issues are particularly urgent. By analyzing surveys from 2020 and 2022, researchers ...

Across industries, the promise and potential of human-robot collaboration includes not just increased efficiency and ...

Automation has been around for decades, but advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) have made it possible ...

Robots are transforming the way nursing homes tackle critical challenges like employee turnover and a shrinking workforce in ...

Robots and their pilots make up a large portion ... and growth has stagnated since the 1990s. The shortage of workers, not helped by tight restrictions on all kinds of immigration, is just one ...

Japan is running out of workers. With an unemployment rate of just 2.5 per cent ... At the Dawn cafe in central Toyko, diners are greeted as they come in the door not by a person, but by a robot ...

OriHime, a 120-centimeter-tall robot, greets and directs patients at Musashino Hospital in the western Tokyo city of Kodaira, but its underlying main purpose is to help people far from the medical ...

Today's robots perform safety checks at industrial plants, conduct quality control in manufacturing, and are even starting to ...