Tag: Robots

Meet Aiko Chihira. She speaks Japanese and wears a kimono. She greets customers and conveys information. But Aiko's not Japanese. She's not even human. She's an android made by Toshiba and now ...

Visitors to SXSW Interactive Festival (SXSWi) (March 13-22, 2015) in Austin should head to the Hakuhodo Group exhibition booth, "Prototyping the Future". Hakuhodo will be showcasing several of its ...

One of the top Japanese internet memes of the past few years finally becomes a real product. The Nico Nico Douga Self-Switching-Off Robot was created by user Kairoshi as a video uploaded to his ...

After teasing us with the prototype back in the spring, Sharp has now made its moe version of the Cocorobo vacuum cleaner an actual product. The Premium Cocorobo Imouto Version will only be ...

It seems that everyone has a robot these days, even SoftBank. At CEATEC 2014, Japan's biggest tech event, Toshiba has unveiled its contribution to the Japanese robot canon -- an android that can ...

It generated enough headlines when it opened and now it will surely get some more. The Robot Restaurant in Shinjuku Kabukicho launched in late 2012 on a wave of publicity, not least for its ...

Robotic pets, also known as robo-pets (not to be confused with the actual Robopet), are making something of a return to the shelves of stores in Japan in a valiant effort to buck the trend of local ...

Motion Figure System MF201 is a 25cm-tall slender doll-like robot figure system that its makers claim is a "world-first motion figure system". The slim and silent mini robot has been created by ...

Two things Japan is famous for just came crashing together big time: idols and robots. AKB48's fans have become notorious for spending vast amounts of time and money on merchandise and tributes to ...

Which is the human? Hot on the heels of SoftBank's announcement that it would begin selling humanoid robots and even staffing its stores with them, now comes a new exhibition at Miraikai, ...

Stores of SoftBank, one of Japan's three main mobile phone providers, will be staffed by robots, announced CEO and Japan's richest man Masayoshi Son at a press conference today in Tokyo. The ...

When Sharp first released its Cocorobo, the world was pretty impressed. Here was a low-cost robotic vacuum cleaner that could respond to its owner's commands and be controlled by Android and iPhone ...

If Kabukicho had a theme park starring Akihabara chika aidoru ("underground" idols), this might be it... After opening last summer amidst much sound and fury, we finally paid a visit to the Robot ...

The folks at DigInfo have put together this nice report on a Japanese robot that can recreate the detailed brushstrokes of human calligraphy using a Motion Copy System. While the whole get-up may ...

What happens when the eroticism of Kabukicho meets the tech boffins of robotics industry and the cosplay and otaku cultures of Harajuku and Akihabara? You get the Robot Restaurant, built at a ...