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.

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

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

A cat-like robot has been deployed at an unmanned souvenir shop in an airport terminal near Tokyo as part of efforts to ...

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 ...

The robot uses a 3D camera, touch and force sensors on its claws, and a self-training neural network to scale ladders.

Tokyo-based start-up Tsubame Industries has developed a 14.8-feet, four-wheeled robot that looks like "Mobile Suit Gundam" from the wildly popular Japanese animation series, and it can be yours for $3 ...

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Robots are set to be used at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The organising committee for next summer's games has launched the Tokyo 2020 Robot Project - one of many programmes aimed at ...

Japan is known for technological innovation and hospitality, influencing new hotel trends. Michelle Gross spent 4 nights at Yotel Tokyo Ginza, a hotel that leverages robots and automation. She says ...