A professor in Japan has created android robots that make the plot of Will Smith’s “I, Robot” possible. The newest exhibition showing at The National Museum of Emerging Science an… ...

The fascination with weird and wonderful robots at the Android: What is a Human? exhibition continues, as Japan unveils the world's first android newscasters.

This got to be a pretty familiar trope with the iPhone in Japan: It's just not advanced enough, since it's missing things like bill payments, RFID, mobile ...

Two female robots spoke to the audience in Japanese, and the younger android stated that she hoped she could have her own TV program one day, then went on to flawlessly read a news story about a ...

A recent Japanese study tried to teach an advanced android how and when to respond to shared laughter - a social skill for advancing human-robot interaction ...

While the West tends to see robots and artificial intelligence as a threat, Japan takes a more philosophical view.

Android faces must express greater emotion if robots are to interact with humans more effectively. Osaka University researchers tackled this challenge as they upgraded their android child head ...

But the adorable android - first released in 2016 and only available in Japan - does not come cheap, with regular models priced between US$820 (S$1,090) and US$2,250.