On Thursday, SoftBank Robotics opened the Pepper PARLOR, a cafe where three different types of robots work alongside human staff to serve and entertain customers. "[The] aim is to create a space where ...

Every Sunday, Tokyo's Penguin Café opens an hour early to host an unusual group of visitors: robot dogs and their owners. The weekly event — named "Aibo World" after Sony's popular line of robot dogs ...

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

A café partially staffed by robots recently opened in downtown Tokyo, giving guests the opportunity to live out a sci-fi fantasy. It also provides jobs to those with physical limitations or ...

At a Tokyo cafe, Michio Imai greets a customer, but not in person. He’s hundreds of kilometres away, operating a robot waiter. At a Tokyo cafe, Michio Imai greets a customer, but not in person. He’s ...

At first glance, it’s just another Japanese robot experiment. But this café is different. The robots are controlled in ...

Japan already has a hotel staffed by robots, so why not a cafe? Opening this week in Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya district, tech giant SoftBank is opening a new eatery staffed by lots of its Pepper robots ...

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 ...

Tokyo: Japan, in its spirit of being futuristic in nature, has a unique café where robot waiters are operated remotely by people with severe physical disabilities. This novel venture, known as the ...

I spent 4 nights at Yotel Tokyo Ginza, a hybrid robot hotel in Tokyo. The robot room service and check-in was novel, but it has a way to go.

Robots are increasingly finding their way into the workforce in a variety of sectors Kentaro Yoshifuji of OryLab is one of a number of entrepreneurs experimenting in the avatar robot field Yohsifuji ...