By Akash Sriram (Reuters) -Robotics startup Skild AI, backed by Amazon.com and Japan's SoftBank Group, on Tuesday unveiled a ...

This video explores Japan's use of robots to address labor shortages. This is a special journey to explore different robot encounters in Tokyo. Our aim is to experience a world with robots in ...

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 ...

Japan’s construction sector is booming but contractors are struggling to fill labour shortages—a problem playing out in other parts of the world, including the U.S. The robots demonstrated at ...

Japan is a world leader in robotics technology, and the government is trumpeting robotics as a pillar of its growth strategy. Robots have long been used here in manufacturing.

The Japanese government began providing subsidies for nursing homes to adopt robotics beginning in 2013 to help alleviate the shortage. The Shintomi nursing home in Tokyo was one such facility that ...

Hiroshi Ishiguro's 28-centimetre-tall button-eyed Sota, which stands for "social talker," is programmed to mainly talk with a fellow robot, and won't be trying too hard to understand human speech ...