TOKYO–Four of Japan’s leading robot startups joined forces Wednesday, brought together by a common concern that neighboring South Korea could pull ahead in the race to transform robots from ...

London: A team of Japanese scientists has developed the worlds first robot teacher, which can take attendance and even get angry, apart from teaching students. Previously employed as a secretary ...

Heron and Nallely Trejo, software engineers from Mexico who live in the US and are visiting Japan for a two-week holiday, said they found the story behind the robot cafe “really inspiring”.

Japan’s population is the oldest in the world, with few young people working in agriculture. But now its farmers are getting help from a robot called Adam.

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 ...

In Japan, best known for robots such as Sony Corp.’s robotic Aibu dog and Honda Motor Co.’s chummy Asimo, development tends to foster domestic uses.