From robot companions to robot cafes, these aspiring Asian machine overlords still need plenty of human oversight.

“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 ...

In 2026, Bitcoin Japan obtained indirect financial exposure to Figure AI shares through a fund investment by its US subsidiary. This is separate from the UBTECH distribution agreement. The UBTECH ...

Humanoids Dance and Thread Needles as Japanese Robotics Developers Look to Outdo Chinese TOKYO (AP) — Mechanical hands dexterous enough to thread a needle, childlike dancing robots and adult-sized ...

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 ...

The race was sponsored by a department of the Beijing municipal government. While both humans and androids took part, the ...

Do you ever feel like you're living in the early chapters of a dystopian sci-fi story? As if AI, mass surveillance, and the increasing concentration of wealth weren't enough, now we have freakin' ...

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 ...