Handmade By Robots has released two Santa Claus vinyl dolls created especially to celebrate Christmas in the Japanese ...

A new wave of AI robot companions is moving beyond clinical tools to aid the elderly providing emotional support and critical reminders for meals, medication, and appointments.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used ...

Yukiko Namekata, a resident at an elder care facility in Tokyo run by Zenkoukai, and her caregiver follow the movement of a miniature humanoid robot called PALRO. At top, AIREC, an artificial ...

Automata were the first breath of artificial life, mechanical simulacra that will one day become an atemporal echo of the illustrious robot future, the first creak of the hinge clasping Pandora's box.

Japanese scientists have made a robot capable of feeling love. And woe betide anyone that gets in his way. Lovable Kenji is one of seven robots designed to react “emotionally” to external stimuli as ...

Soon after people enter old age, fear of loneliness haunts them, as most of their children or grandchildren are far ...