TOKYO: It resembles a malevolent robot from 1980s sci-fi but West Japan Railway's new humanoid employee was designed with nothing more sinister than a spot of painting and gardening in mind.

Start-up firms in the Kansai region in western Japan and the Tokyo metropolitan area have developed robots that follow actions performed by human operators in real time, bringing droids far closer ...

Japan’s first robot bartender has begun serving up drinks ... At about 9 million yen ($82,000), the robot cost as much as employing a human bartender for three years.

he met "Pepper": a so-called "companion robot" that can read human emotions. Yusuke Abe, a developer at SoftBank robotics, explained what Pepper could do, and why it was proving popular in Japan.

Xiaoxiao is one of the two artificial pets named LOVOT, brought by Groove X from Japan to CIIE, the world's first ...

The humanoid robot named "Pepper", designed by Japanese telecommunications company Softbank, was seen in action wearing a Buddhist robe chanting sutras at Japan's largest funeral and cemetery expo.

A portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing became the first artwork by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction, fetching $1,320,000 on Thursday. The 2.2-meter portrait "A.I. God" by "Ai-Da", the ...

Meet Kengoro, a robot modelled after humans who is capable of completing physical exercises. The humanoid machine can be seen doing push-ups and crunches, and can even play badminton. Japanese ...

A new video appears to show that Tesla's Optimus robot has mastered the complex process of catching an object in midflight.

Robotics startup Figure has shared a new video showing several of its humanoid robots performing a task that could be applied ...