OHBU, Japan -- The elderly patients suffer from severe dementia, but their faces light up when they see the dog-shaped robot, swaddled in soft clothing, waddle around the hospital floor. Some clap; ...

The Kyoto Humanoid Association (KyoHA), a coalition initiated by Waseda University and Murata Manufacturing Co., has welcomed ...

So-called dark factories-otherwise known as "lights out" or "automatic" factories-are manufacturing facilities that do not depend on human labor to get work done. While they may have some benefits for ...

Slowly but steadily an 83-year-old woman marched up and down the corridor with a device strapped around her waist and attached to each leg. Sensors in the exoskeleton detected the movement of her hip ...

TOKYO -- At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust. Hooked up ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Japan, which has taken the lead in developing a generation of high-tech if quirky robots, is now getting down to reality by looking at ...

Obama spent time Thursday in Tokyo playing around with ASIMO, a robot made by Honda that can do normal human things like kick a soccer ball — and bow to the President, earning a sign of respect in ...