Chinese electric-vehicle maker Xpeng plans to use solid-state batteries to power humanoid robots, extending the possible ...

SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son has long predicted a future where robots would outnumber people and take over many jobs from humans.

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 biohybrid ...

TOKYO -- At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust. Hooked up ...

Jensen Huang says robots are the next big thing, or one of them anyway. That’s good news for Japan, potentially. “The ChatGPT moment for robotics is coming,” Nvidia’s chief executive declared while ...

Humanoid robots capture the public imagination, and investors are backing them. That means a lot of reports will be incoming, ...

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 ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced plans to begin limited production of humanoid robots by 2025. Meanwhile, Chinese company Unitree Robotics has already listed its humanoid robots on JD.com, sparking ...

Japan is home to half the world's industrial robots, and some could star in fashion shows. A video shows a woman in silver and black, with long black hair; it's the HRP-4C humanoid robot. Her creators ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Dressed in a kimono and smiling, Aiko Chihira greets shoppers at the entrance of Tokyo's Mitsukoshi department store. But Chihira is no regular employee -- she is a humanoid robot.