She said: "My legs feel lighter!" The Express was visiting Shintomi nursing home in Tokyo, which has attracted international ...

Smaller robots that look like the mascots for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics were controlled in the same way. Japanese automaker Toyota is an Olympic sponsor. Toyota engineer Tomohisa ...

Meet Kengoro, a robot modelled after humans who is capable of completing physical exercises. The humanoid machine can be seen doing push-ups and crunches, and can even play badminton. Japanese ...

Start-up firms in the Kansai region in western Japan and the Tokyo metropolitan area have developed robots that follow actions performed by human operators in real time, bringing droids far closer ...

In a quiet aisle of a small supermarket in Tokyo, a robot dutifully goes about its work. Reaching down, it grabs yet another bottle of a flavoured drink that humans like, lifts it and places it on ...

Japan now has two hotels run almost entirely by robots. The Hen'na Hotels are owned by low-cost travel agency H.I.S. Co. The hotels are in Nagasaki and Tokyo, Japan. There are robots to help you ...

Japan is famous ... are developing a cybernetic human that’s capable of speaking (and taking to the catwalk). As such, it shouldn't have been surprising to see robots play crucial roles in ...

Japan's first surgical ... We examine how the robot is used in surgeries and interview the developers about why the device was necessary. We also look at how the robot is being used to operate ...

Plus, it's not a bad idea to get started on the robot revolution when Japan's human population is declining so rapidly. For just 9,000 yen ($80), the general public can take a breezy stroll ...