TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - The brown-haired, brown-eyed woman made her Tokyo stage debut in a tearjerker about a girl suffering a fatal illness. Her voice was calm, but her performance a bit mechanical.

At the time of its launch in 2015, Erica was dubbed not only the most beautiful but also the most intelligent android. Several other female-like robots have made headlines since then, but the Japanese ...

That is one goal of the Japanese government's $37.7 million Humanoid Robotics Project (HRP), which aims to market within a few years robots that can operate power shovels, assist construction workers ...

This got to be a pretty familiar trope with the iPhone in Japan: It’s just not advanced enough, since it’s missing things like bill payments, RFID, mobile TV and other crazy stuff. Analysts are saying ...