Japan’s experience with integrating service robots in restaurants may help shape the future of elder care automation. The key ...

Japan's service robot industry is set to triple in size by 2030. The country has become a hotbed for service robotics—from ...

Japan's food industry faces the same dire demographic problems plaguing the rest of the country. A shrinking and aging population has led to chronic labor shortages, but one startup believes ...

But it might be about to become much more common in Japan. Major restaurants ... "Thanks to the robots that play a partial role in serving food, we can improve our customer service, like by ...

"Internally and externally there’s a lot of pressures that are happening in our economy," says Juan Higueros, Chief Operating Officer of Bear Robotics, a company that makes a food serving robot ...

he met "Pepper": a so-called "companion robot" that can read human emotions. Yusuke Abe, a developer at SoftBank robotics, explained what Pepper could do, and why it was proving popular in Japan.