People strolling around Tokyo recently may have glimpsed the unusual sight of a tourist wearing a robot on their shoulder. The robot, built by local robotics firm OryLab and called OriHime, offers ...
In line with kei car packaging regulations, the EV measures 3,395 mm (133.7 inches) long, 1,475 mm (58.1 inches) wide, and ...
Sharp Corp's "Poketomos, or pocket friends, are tiny robots that can fit in a large jacket pocket or purse, and Sharp touts that they can talk with their owners and remember personal details. They ...
Japan is running out of workers. With an unemployment rate of just 2.5 per cent, a rapidly ageing population and declining birth rate, finding enough people to fill roles as taxi drivers, baristas and ...
Robots are set to be used at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The organising committee for next summer's games has launched the Tokyo 2020 Robot Project - one of many programmes aimed at ...
Magazine covers of Giant Robot are displayed at the Japanese American National Museum. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times) In 1994, Eric Nakamura launched a zine he dubbed Giant Robot, a ...
TOKYO, Aug 27 (Reuters) - In a restaurant down an alley in one of Tokyo's best-known red light districts, four massive female robots wink and wave as they lumber to the beat of traditional Japanese ...
Tokyo-based start-up Tsubame Industries has developed a 14.8-feet, four-wheeled robot that looks like "Mobile Suit Gundam" from the wildly popular Japanese animation series, and it can be yours for $3 ...