Why Japan has bet its revival on humanoid robots By David R. Baker , Business Reporter Updated Dec 12, 2014 8:53 p.m. Almost human: Honda’s robot, Asimo, can run forward and backward and hop on ...

Japanese researchers have developed a humanoid robot that can laugh and smile just like a real human being. Written by Andrew Nusca, Contributor April 4, 2010 at 11:56 p.m. PT ...

The robot will be available for ¥198,000 ($1,600). Japanese companies have been developing humanoid robots for decades. Perhaps the most famous is Asimo, by automaker Honda Motor Co.

Japanese electronics maker Murata Manufacturing Co., Waseda University and two other companies teamed up to develop humanoid search and rescue robots as part of a wider effort to revive Japan's ...

Scientists in Japan have made a robot face covered in living, self-healing skin that can smile in a demonstration of a new technique researchers believe could help pave the way for lifelike ...

Japan's National Science Museum is no stranger to eerily human androids: It employs two in its exhibition hall already. But for a week, they're getting a new colleague. Called "Alter," it has a ...

A new bot out of Japan is called the HRP-5P and this is a serious R&D robot that aims to do the same sort of work as humans. The goal of the robot is to replace humans in labor work and in ...

On the left, according to Retrolicious, "Yasutaro Mitsui poses with his own steel humanoid, Tokyo, Japan, in 1932." And on the right, Hiroshi Ishiguru ...

TOKYO — It was fitting that a little guy named Asimo helped Japan ring in the new year. A nation that grew up on Atom the boy robot and a bevy of other humanoid cartoon 'bots gaped as this Tin Man ...

The robot will be available for ¥198,000 ($1,600). Japanese companies have been developing humanoid robots for decades. Perhaps the most famous is Asimo, by automaker Honda Motor Co.

Scientists in Japan have made a robot face covered in living, self-healing skin that can smile in a demonstration of a new technique researchers believe could help pave the way for lifelike ...