Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Japanese traditional coming-of-age festival took place at a shrine in Tokyo for an unusual kind of visitor — robot dogs. The ...

Quadruped dubbed D5 from Pudu - founded by former HKUST engineering student Felix Zhang - draws crowds at Tokyo expo A pale-grey, nearly one-metre-tall, four-legged robot drew crowds at Tokyo's ...

Rescue dog Gonta, outfitted with a GPS-enabled backpack but driven by his own innate sense of smell, jumps onto a pile of collapsed rubble to find buried survivors. Though just a drill, the intensity ...

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Japanese are more accepting of robots because the native Shinto religion often blurs boundaries between the animate and inanimate, experts say. To the Japanese psyche, the idea of a humanoid robot ...