The newest employee at a Tokyo 7-Eleven works through the night without a single break. It silently stocks drinks and other ...

OriHime, a robot remotely controlled by people with disabilities, is offering tours in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi district.

Japan begins robot trials in 7-Eleven amid massive worker shortage - Autonomous machines will stack shelves and clean windows in Tokyo convenience store ...

Seven-Eleven Japan Co. on Tuesday introduced worker robots to one of its convenience stores in Tokyo, with the trial part of ...

The company is testing the effectiveness of robots at saving labour. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A new tour guided by avatar robot ‘OriHime’ in Nihonbashi area was launched. A pilot can guide a traveler through the ...

Japan is running out of workers. With an unemployment rate of just 2.5 per cent, a rapidly ageing population and declining birth rate, finding enough people to fill roles as taxi drivers, baristas and ...

Facing a severe labour shortage, Japan has turned to automation in convenience stores by launching a revolutionary trial of ...

People strolling around Tokyo recently may have glimpsed the unusual sight of a tourist wearing a robot on their shoulder. The robot, built by local robotics firm OryLab and called OriHime, offers ...

TOKYO -- Tokyo's Olympics may become known as the "Robot Games." Organizers on Friday showed off robots set to be used at the new National Stadium to provide assistance for fans using wheelchairs.

Kids at a nursery school in Yamanashi Prefecture near Tokyo have had the chance to play with a friendly robot while it measured their development.

TOKYO, Aug 27 (Reuters) - In a restaurant down an alley in one of Tokyo's best-known red light districts, four massive female robots wink and wave as they lumber to the beat of traditional Japanese ...