As the country needs to address labor shortages urgently, companies and workers are exploring how robots and humans can work together better for business efficiency.

El Segundo based Shinkei Systems Corp. uses robots and AI to automate ikejime, a centuries-old Japanese fish processing ...

Japan's obsessed with automation — not because it's novel, but because there just aren't enough people. More small and medium-sized companies are buying robots to make up for a labour shortfall ...

Researchers in Japan and Switzerland have revealed a giant robotic hand that could transform how communities prepare for and ...

In Japan, a group of educational robots will serve as classroom dunces, intentionally making mistakes that a helpful student can correct.

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But it’s also a good cultural fit. Japan was an early adopter of robots, installing them in car factories starting in the 1970s. And some of the most beloved Japanese touchstones are robots.

Japanese are more accepting of robots because the native Shinto religion often blurs boundaries between the animate and inanimate, experts say. To the Japanese psyche, the idea of a humanoid robot ...

In Japan, robots are more than mere gadgetry--they're practically family. Unlike the U.S., where the icons of a dawning era of robots tend to be either the faceless, Frisbee-shaped, floor ...

Japanese increasingly accepting of robots taking part in everyday life as human population gets older.

Japan has invested untold millions in developing all kinds of robots, including machines that can work in hazardous places like nuclear power plants.

Japan, the world’s third largest economy, hopes that robots and other types of automation will help solve its demographic problems and impending labor shortage.