Yaskawa Electric Corp. has unveiled a robot which has been programmed to replicate the movements of a Japanese sword master, enabling it to learn the skill of iaido, or the ancient quick-draw ...

Usually a sword-wielding robot would be the stuff of nightmares. But the Japanese company Yaskawa Electric Corporation makes it look totally awesome. The company taught one of its manufacturing ...

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) – Nijiya Kurota's little hand grips a calligraphy brush dangling above a clean sheet of rice paper. The brush itself is being held dead straight, just as an expert who has ...

Sony Corp.’s Aibo robot dog is back with all its disarming and unpredictable charm. The Japanese maker of the PlayStation video game consoles pulled the plug on Aibo 12 years ago, drawing an ...

Crave freelancer Tim Hornyak is the author of "Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots." He has been writing about Japanese culture and technology for a decade. E-mail Tim. "I ...

Opening Japan’s official Robot Revolution Initiative Council on May 15, Abe called on the nation’s corporate sector to “spread the use of robotics from large-scale factories to every corner ...