The newest employee at a Tokyo 7-Eleven works through the night without a single break. It silently stocks drinks and other ...

F or decades, humanoid robots lived in science fiction and in high-tech labs. That’s changing. Engineers and companies across ...

In Japan, robots are more than mere gadgetry--they're practically family. Unlike the U.S., where the icons of a dawning era of robots tend to be either the faceless, Frisbee-shaped, floor-scrubbing ...

HUMANOID robots danced hip-hop, performed martial arts and played keyboard, guitar and drums at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing before the weekend. The ...

Hundreds of humanoids from 16 countries stumbled over each other while competing in the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing ...

More than 500 humanoid robots in 280 teams from 16 countries are competing in sports including soccer, running and boxing.

It was only a matter of time before the robots would start taking over…hotels. As robotics become more sophisticated, one theme park in Japan is gearing up to launch a hotel operated by an all-robot ...

TOKYO >> A small robot with a clip-like hand and enough smarts to know which drinks are popular is part of an effort to make convenience stores even more convenient. On a recent day in Tokyo, the ...

From an AI-fueled robot that converses with dementia patients to a wristband combatting menopausal hot flashes, dozens of ...