and why it was proving popular in Japan. Yusuke Abe, a developer at SoftBank robotics, talks about the capabilities of 'Pepper'. The robots so far looked like robots, but what about the ones with ...

Start-up firms in the Kansai region in western Japan and the Tokyo metropolitan area have developed robots that follow ... On a recent day, a 2.5-meter-tall android was emitting mechanical ...

BEIJING--What was billed as the world’s first android half-marathon was held here ... While both humans and androids took part, the only humanoid robots allowed to run were bipeds.

Step by mechanical step, dozens of humanoid robots took to the streets of Beijing ... One smaller-sized android, which fell over and lay on the ground for several minutes, got up by itself to loud ...

Companies and university researchers in Japan have jointly launched an organization with the aim of developing "AI robots" that can make complex movements just like humans through the application ...