KYOTO—A made-in-Japan humanoid that’s part of a project to help the country make up for lost ground in android development ...

“In the future, the relationship between humans and robots will deepen, and the distinction between them will probably disappear.” This prediction, from one of the attendees at the recent Humanoids ...

Japan has produced humanoid service robots for more than a decade, and for most of that time, they have failed at roughly the same thing. They could hear what you said but not how you said it. The ...

Japanese AI company ZEALS launched the D1 — Japan's first commercially available humanoid robot certified through a hospital proof-of-concept — on August 5, 2026, opening sales and deployment ...