Researchers at Kyoto University have developed Buddharoid. This is an AI-powered humanoid robot designed to act like a Buddhist priest, amid Japan’s priest shortage.

It looks like a washing machine on wheels, but the bulky contraption vacuuming the hallways of a Tokyo high-rise is a robot. Japanese researchers hope that robots like this one will be the answer to a ...

Japan unveils its first AI buddhist monk robot as Kyoto University researchers turn to technology to support temples facing ...

TOKYO, April 6 – Robots in Japan are found on factory floors carrying out simple tasks or delivering food to restaurant patrons but researchers have now unveiled a robot capable of executing the ...

Boeing builds expensive airplanes -- but very affordable drone ships for the military.

Beginning in the 1960’s, the rise of manufacturing for the automotive industry and the concomitant rise of industrial robots played an indispensable role in powering Japan’s economic miracle. By the ...

To loosely quote Gwen Stefani: “This stuff is bananas—B-A-N-A-N-A-S.” Researchers in Japan have trained a robot to peel bananas. Reuters reports how Heecheol Kim, Yoshiyuki Ohmura, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi ...

Japan is home to half the world's industrial robots, and some could star in fashion shows. A video shows a woman in silver and black, with long black hair; it's the HRP-4C humanoid robot. Her creators ...

TOKYO >> A small robot with a clip-like hand and enough smarts to know which drinks are popular is part of an effort to make convenience stores even more convenient. On a recent day in Tokyo, the ...

The West Japan Rail Company (JR West) has unveiled a new futuristic worker that’s tasked with infrastructure jobs considered too risky for humans. And people? It’s a giant robot humanoid that looks ...

An amusing Marx battery-op, a 14-inch-long Snappy the Happy Bubble Blowing Dragon, is all original, in spectacular condition ...