Kimiya Ishikawa, chief executive of Silver Wing Social Care Corporation which runs Shintomi, said Japan's affinity for technology and the familiarity of robots ... make Japan's elderly care ...

A researcher at Waseda University’s laboratory in Tokyo, Japan, plays an elderly patient to demonstrate ... but the use of robots has been limited so far. At one facility in Tokyo, a bug-eyed ...

A physical presence that attends to its person by assisting with dynamic needs, such as deliveries, health, and home ...

According to an estimate released in April by the National Institute of Population and Social ... support for elderly people who have no relatives,” said Kanae Sawamura of the Japan Research ...

we will be needing robots' support for medical and elderly care, and in our daily lives," said Shigeki Sugano, the Waseda University professor leading AIREC's research with government funding. Japan ...

Japan’s shrinking working-age population has led to a severe shortage of workers to care for the elderly, and robots using artificial intelligence (AI) are seen as part of the solution to the ...

A report by Bank of America suggests that humanoid robots are set to become an increasingly important part of our lives.

Faced with an aging population and labor shortages, Japanese businesses are increasingly relying on service robots to supplement their workforce, according to Bloomberg. Research firm Fuji Keizai ...

In two experiments, East Asians had more positive views of human-chatbot interactions than European Americans did. Might this tendency stem from Eastern religious traditions?

In the future, machines could be programmed to assist and comfort the elderly—and help ... head of Yale University’s Social Robotics Lab. He’s tested robots with a range of patients, and ...

AI Robots May Hold ... bedsores in the elderly. The 150-kg (330 lb) artificial intelligence-driven humanoid robot called AIREC is a prototype future "caregiver" for Japan's rapidly ageing ...