Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two humanoid robots walk over mock debris to show their disaster-response abilities at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo ...

“In the future, the relationship between humans and robots will deepen, and the distinction between them will probably disappear.” This prediction, from one of the attendees at the recent Humanoids ...

The robot pauses at the edge of the room as an engineer checks its sensors. Then, with a soft mechanical hum, this humanoid machine begins to move. It lifts a mannequin from a bed, slowly and ...

TOKYO — Mechanical hands dexterous enough to thread a needle, childlike dancing robots and adult-sized ones to help with deliveries were on display Thursday as the Humanoids Summit Tokyo opened. Among ...

The combination of its geographic location, geologically active landmass, and topography renders Japan prone to frequent ...

Monster Wolf and Pochi are among the robots deployed to scare away bears and transport cherry blossoms in a northern region where many farmers are in their 70s or older.

Japan has produced humanoid service robots for more than a decade, and for most of that time, they have failed at roughly the same thing. They could hear what you said but not how you said it. The ...