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.

Fresh from its defeat in women’s World Cup soccer, Japan wants to take on the U.S. once again—in giant robot combat. Suidobashi Heavy Industry has agreed to a challenge from Boston-based MegaBots that ...

Japan's giant human-piloted, humanoid Gundam-style robots are neat and everything, but … why walk if you can roll on four wheels? That's what the Archax does, transforming between robot and vehicle ...

At a time when Japan’s ever-shrinking population has spooked many of the country’s major businesses into turning their development attentions overseas, Super Robot Wars developer Bandai Namco Forge ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Sushi-making robots, playmate robots, robotic wombs, sex robots and babysitting robots — all are ...

In Japan, robots are more than mere gadgetry--they're practically family. Unlike the U.S., where the icons of a dawning era of robots tend to be either the faceless, Frisbee-shaped, floor-scrubbing ...

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A Vision 60 robodog operates alongside Japan Ground Self-Defense Force troops at Narashino Training Area outside Tokyo, Jan.

When ordinary superheroes are no longer enough to defend the world, it's time to call in the giant robots. That's the premise behind DC Mech, a new DC Comics series that blends the Justice League with ...

TOKYO — Sony Corp.’s Katsumi Muto thinks a lot of elderly Japanese might be looking for mechanical friends. The old and alone develop an emotional attachment that deepens over time to Aibo, Sony’s ...

Engineers in Japan have been hard at work building a gigantic, 60-foot humanoid robot modeled after those in the “Gundam” sci-fi franchise. And while construction of the robot has slowed due to the ...