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 ...

At first glance, Shinjuku Station High Point looks like any other new, Japanese eatery. Smiling patrons, authentic sushi, and ...

Waitstaff won’t be the ones bringing you your food or drink at a sushi restaurant in Framingham. Instead, it’s all done by technology. Kura Sushi opened a new location in Framingham on June 23, ...

A sushi restaurant based in Japan reopened this month with a new kind of busser: robots. Renovations to Genki Sushi, which reopened in Ewa Beach after two months of work, include robots, according to ...

TOKYO — Some robot-loving Japanese are tinkering with screwdrivers and motors instead of heading to the beach or hot springs during this nation’s "Golden Week" holidays. Among the robots on display ...

Japan's civilizing influence takes many forms; in administration, for example, Kanban, Lean, Just-in-time, are all management methods of Japanese origin that have spread worldwide. On the cultural ...

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 ...

After getting tired of waiting for a monster to flatten Tokoyo, a startup Tsubame Industries has developed a 4.5-meter-tall, four-wheeled robot modeled after the "Mobile Suit Gundam" from the Japanese ...