WASHINGTON (7News) — In this new age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), one of the biggest concerns right now is job security. One thing is for sure: professional athletes have nothing to worry about. A ...

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.

In Japan, robots are more than mere gadgetry--they're practically family. Unlike the U.S., where the icons of a dawning era of robots tend to be either the faceless, Frisbee-shaped, floor-scrubbing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

On March 11, 2008, the first Japanese module of the International Space Station launched on the space shuttle Endeavour during mission STS-123. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...