Scientists in Japan have grafted living human skin onto the face of a humanoid robot in an effort to give machines a more lifelike appearance. In a groundbreaking procedure, a team from the ...

Robots may be on the way to looking more human-like sooner than you think. Researchers in Japan have announced that they ...

Many scifi robots have taken the form of their creators. In the increasingly blurry space between the biological and the mechanical, researchers have found a way to affix human skin to robot faces.

Japanese scientists have found a way ... The gel plugs the holes and tethers the skin to the robot. "By mimicking human skin-ligament structures and by using specially made V-shaped perforations ...

The robot was without any kind of skin ... The human features of two eyes and arms also help improve its operability. Man-Machine Synergy Effectors is financially backed by a West Japan Railway ...

Scientists from Japan have brought us one step closer to human-like robots by crafting living human skin on robots which gave their fingers skin-like texture, as well as water-repellent and self ...

When humans sweat, the moisture that is pushed out of our skin evaporates and cools us. Robots don’t typically have the same advantage, but when the engineers behind the Kengoro robot discovered ...

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 ...

Japan now has two hotels run almost entirely by robots. The Hen'na Hotels are owned by low-cost travel agency H.I.S. Co. The hotels are in Nagasaki and Tokyo, Japan. There are robots to help you ...

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