Would you work with a joke-cracking robot? Japan tries to catch up with China’s humanoids

At Japan’s first robotics expo, Tokyo turns to ‘physical AI’ as China and the US dominate robot manufacturing View on ...

Toyota's new basketball robot wows crowd in Tokyo with smooth shooting and dribbling

TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp. has recently unveiled its new humanoid basketball-playing robot, "Cue7." Compared with the ...
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Giant Humanoid Robot Designed to Mitigate Workers Injury on Railway Maintenance

Robotics company Man-Machine Synergy Effectors, West Japan Railway Company and Nippon Signal have developed a giant humanoid ...

This humanoid robot can almost run as fast as a human sprinter

The demonstration centers on a controlled track test in which the robot passes a speed-measurement device at peak velocity.
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Japan's Tech Titans Just Teamed Up to Build a Trillion-Parameter AI—And It's Not Here to Chat

SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and NEC have formed a new company in Japan to build physical AI for robots and machines.