KYOTO—A made-in-Japan humanoid that’s part of a project to help the country make up for lost ground in android development ...

Japan’s government is actively pushing robots into jobs that workers increasingly refuse to do, from lifting elderly patients in nursing homes to running repetitive tasks at rural factories. The ...

Japan has one of the world’s oldest populations, and a strained health and care workforce. It has also long been the global ...

The newest employee at a Tokyo 7-Eleven works through the night without a single break. It silently stocks drinks and other products with mechanical precision, and cleans and mops the floor whenever ...

Fanuc shares hit a record high after partnering with Google to integrate Gemini Enterprise and the Intrinsic robotics platform into its industrial robot systems worldwide.

A Japanese university has launched a robotics laboratory where machines now conduct medical experiments ...