Slowly but steadily an 83-year-old woman marched up and down the corridor with a device strapped around her waist and attached to each leg. Sensors in the exoskeleton detected the movement of her ...

and why it was proving popular in Japan. Yusuke Abe, a developer at SoftBank robotics, talks about the capabilities of 'Pepper'. The robots so far looked like robots, but what about the ones with ...

Japan’s population is the oldest in the world, with a third aged over 65, and one in 10 aged over 80, due to a combination of low fertility rates and high life expectancy. This has a direct ...

Most robots ... in Japan. The organizer says it may even be the first in the world. The customers at the cafe said, "In the beginning, I thought it was just a robot. But gradually, I felt like ...

Telexistence, one of the early pioneers in the field, already has avatar robot prototypes in place stocking shelves in a number of Japanese convenience stores. The robots are controlled remotely ...

Robots taking over our jobs is probably one thought that looms around everyone’s mind. Japan and Singapore are ... though and are looked at more like assistants who will help humans in serving ...