Japan begins robot trials in 7-Eleven amid massive worker shortage - Autonomous machines will stack shelves and clean windows in Tokyo convenience store ...

The newest employee at a Tokyo 7-Eleven works through the night without a single break. It silently stocks drinks and other ...

China has embarked on a campaign to use more robots in its factories, transforming its manufacturing industries and becoming ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used ...

Japanese are more accepting of robots because the native Shinto religion often blurs boundaries between the animate and inanimate, experts say. To the Japanese psyche, the idea of a humanoid robot ...

OriHime, a robot remotely controlled by people with disabilities, is offering tours in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi district.

China is making and installing factory robots at a far greater pace than any other country, with the United States a distant ...