An executive at US artificial-intelligence research company OpenAI says Japan is one of the world's top five markets for AI ...

Japan has long held a fascination with robots and their application in daily life. The country remains at the forefront of the robotics industry, in no small part due to the billions of yen’s worth in ...

As the country needs to address labor shortages urgently, companies and workers are exploring how robots and humans can work together better for business efficiency.

Japan's biggest convenience store chain has introduced robots on a trial basis in a bid to tackle labor shortages and ...

Billionaire Masayoshi Son wants to create Android for robots. A unit of Son's SoftBank Corp. has unveiled an operating system that purports to offer a way to control robots just as Google Inc.'s ...

Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a maneuver used to change diapers ...

As the largest developing country, China is experiencing an aging society at a rate faster than that of developed countries such as Japan. The shortage of labor force and rising labor costs are ...

In ERATO ISHIGURO symbiotic human-robot interaction project, a multimodal conversation control system and a multi-robot conversation control system were developed to promote a robot with a higher ...

Previous studies have reported that the adoption of robotic technologies in industry reduces both employment and wages. This column examines the experience of Japan, which is unique due to early ...