While Americans excel at producing deadly robots of militaristic persuasions, the Japanese are arguably the most competent designers of eerily human-like robots. Behold Kodomoroid and Otonaroid, two ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo published findings on a method of attaching artificial skin to robot faces to protect machinery and mimic human expressiveness. By Emily Schmall Engineers in ...

Called "avatars" by the Kyoto Prefecture-based ATR team, the robots will be used during the expo in the "Future of Life" ...

The technology could help develop lifelike humanoid biohybrid robots. LONDON AND TOKYO -- Scientists in Japan have made a robot face covered in living, self-healing skin that can smile in a ...

For centuries, hospitality in Japan has meant kimono-clad innkeepers attentive to the last detail. Now, androids from the company that licenses Hello Kitty will staff a new hotel. A theme park near ...

AFP reports that the newly deployed robot, mounted on a truck that can drive on rails, is operated remotely by a human sitting in a cockpit on the truck. The operator "sees" through the robot's eyes ...