A biohybrid hand which can move objects and do a scissor gesture has been built by a team at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University in Japan. The researchers used thin strings of lab-grown ...

The Government of Japan has been promoting startups to boost innovation and growth, and the pool of potential unicorns, those ...

Working on Atlas with Boston Dynamics enables us to make advances in reinforcement learning on arguably the most sophisticated humanoid robot available,” said Raibert in a statement. “This work will ...

Neon Genesis Evangelion remade the mecha genre in its own image and changed the medium of anime forever. Even popular anime ...

The man behind SoftBank has now teamed up with OpenAI to invest up to $500 billion in American AI infrastructure over the next four years.

Japan leads the world in per capita sales of adult diapers. Japan’s population is getting so old that one major diaper manufacturer is now making products only for adults, not for babies. Japan’s ...

From Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics to bipedal machines you can buy today, here are 12 important milestones in the development of robots.

Masada was happy to hear one of them tell him, "We're glad to have the rare chance to enjoy speaking like this in Japan." While the number of foreign residents in Japan is rising, they often form ...

TOKYO -- Japan's ancient castles, always beautiful, are even more stately at this time of the year, as the drier, clearer air allows light to shine more brilliantly on the snow. Snowfall in Japan ...

like the Metapod sleeping bag. Famitsu has revealed the latest of these strange pieces, as a life-sized Gardevoir doll is coming to Japan in February. Life-Sized Gardevoir Will Scare People Going ...

They have fused Chinese traditional culture with Unitree Robotics, with their robots dancing and twirling silk handkerchiefs in celebration of Chinese New Year.” Speaking of that Chinese New ...

AmbiStack operates like a real-world 3D Tetris game ... Ambi Robotics' new artificial intelligence foundation model for warehouse robots. This advanced AI enables AmbiStack to begin working ...