People strolling around Tokyo recently may have glimpsed the unusual sight of a tourist wearing a robot on their shoulder. The robot, built by local robotics firm OryLab and called OriHime, offers ...

OriHime, a robot remotely controlled by people with disabilities, is offering tours in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi district.

A new tour guided by avatar robot ‘OriHime’ in Nihonbashi area was launched. A pilot can guide a traveler through the ...

Japan is running out of workers. With an unemployment rate of just 2.5 per cent, a rapidly ageing population and declining birth rate, finding enough people to fill roles as taxi drivers, baristas and ...

TOKYO, Aug 27 (Reuters) - In a restaurant down an alley in one of Tokyo's best-known red light districts, four massive female robots wink and wave as they lumber to the beat of traditional Japanese ...

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Kids at a nursery school in Yamanashi Prefecture near Tokyo have had the chance to play with a friendly robot while it measured their development.

Robots are set to be used at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The organising committee for next summer's games has launched the Tokyo 2020 Robot Project - one of many programmes aimed at ...