Nami Hamaura says she feels less lonely working from home thanks to her singing companion Charlie, one of a new generation of cute and clever Japanese robots whose sales are booming in the pandemic.

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Japan, which has taken the lead in developing a generation of high-tech if quirky robots, is now ...

Trapped in a room and longing to see the outside world, the Japanese android is breaking new ground when it comes to machines acting and thinking like humans — her creators claim in a documentary.

Japan plans to develop a homegrown artificial intelligence model and have 10 million AI-equipped robots operating in more than a dozen sectors by 2040, the government said. The country will reportedly ...