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 ...

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 ...

Japan has long been a leader in robotics technology, particularly in the industrial sphere. Today, though, there is a growing focus on the “human side” of robots, such as their relationship ...

It’s not often that I’m torn between grinning like a loon and wanting to run for my life when ... at Japan’s Henn Na Hotels have on you. Because not only are they robots, they’re dinosaur ...

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 ...

Softbank plans to market humanoid robots to Japanese consumers and sees them as a mass-market technology, like personal computers and smartphones.

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 ...