Compact robots that can rest on human shoulders are guiding tourists around Tokyo, but their creator is touting a more ...

People strolling around Tokyo recently may have glimpsed the unusual sight of a tourist wearing a robot on their shoulder. The robot, built by local robotics firm OryLab and called OriHime, offers ...

The robotic Pepper Parlor puts a Star Wars-esque spin on dinner and a show in Tokyo. Patrons may order from, converse with and be entertained by a robot fleet that outnumbers its human handlers at ...

Japan is running out of workers. With an unemployment rate of just 2.5 per cent, a rapidly ageing population and declining birth rate, finding enough people to fill roles as taxi drivers, baristas and ...

A cat-like robot has started selling unattended souvenirs at Narita airport near Tokyo in a demonstration experiment aimed at ...