Nami Hamaura says she feels less lonely working from home thanks to her singing companion Charlie, one of a new generation of cute and clever Japanese robots whose sales are booming in the pandemic.

A professor in Japan has created android robots that make the plot of Will Smith’s “I, Robot” possible. The newest exhibition showing at The National Museum of Emerging Science an… ...

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 ...

The fascination with weird and wonderful robots at the Android: What is a Human? exhibition continues, as Japan unveils the world's first android newscasters.

Two female robots spoke to the audience in Japanese, and the younger android stated that she hoped she could have her own TV program one day, then went on to flawlessly read a news story about a ...

A recent Japanese study tried to teach an advanced android how and when to respond to shared laughter - a social skill for advancing human-robot interaction ...

Android faces must express greater emotion if robots are to interact with humans more effectively. Osaka University researchers tackled this challenge as they upgraded their android child head ...

What would life be like with robots or androids as servants? The Japanese might have an answer. Just as Japan has been on the cutting edge of integrating robots into daily life, Seinendan Theater ...

But the adorable android - first released in 2016 and only available in Japan - does not come cheap, with regular models priced between US$820 (S$1,090) and US$2,250.