TOKYO -- At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust. Hooked up ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Japan, which has taken the lead in developing a generation of high-tech if quirky robots, is now getting down to reality by looking at ...

The newest employee at a Tokyo 7-Eleven works through the night without a single break. It silently stocks drinks and other products with mechanical precision, and cleans and mops the floor whenever ...

A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo successfully bound engineered skin tissue onto the face of a humanoid robot Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

The technology could help develop lifelike humanoid biohybrid robots. LONDON AND TOKYO -- Scientists in Japan have made a robot face covered in living, self-healing skin that can smile in a ...

Called "avatars" by the Kyoto Prefecture-based ATR team, the robots will be used during the expo in the "Future of Life" ...