It’s karaoke-rehearsal time at Knollwood Military Retirement Community, a 300-bed facility tucked away in a leafy corner of ...

Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used to change diapers ...

In a future where there are more senior citizens requiring care, using robots in a targeted fashion could benefit workers and patients alike, Lee said. The study analysed three types of robots ...

It looks like science fiction’s vision of our robot future was right. As robots increasingly become a normal aspect of the ...

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 ...

When Goldie Nejat began developing robots in 2005, she spent much of her time knocking on doors in hopes of demonstrating her high-tech prototypes. Back then, the health-care world was hesitant.

The cat robots come from Skylark Holdings Co., the country’s largest table-service restaurant chain, which has deployed around 3,000 such robots to help servers manage the relentless pace of a busy ...

Capable of cleaning the entire floor of an outlet in an hour, the robot does its job as well as, or even better than a human worker, according to the chain operator. FamilyMart developed the ...

The 150-kg (330 lb) artificial intelligence-driven humanoid robot called AIREC is a prototype future "caregiver" for Japan's rapidly ageing population and chronic shortage of aged-care workers.