Fanuc shares hit a record high after partnering with Google to integrate Gemini Enterprise and the Intrinsic robotics platform into its industrial robot systems worldwide.

Japan’s government is actively pushing robots into jobs that workers increasingly refuse to do, from lifting elderly patients in nursing homes to running repetitive tasks at rural factories. The ...

A nationwide survey in Japan shows divides in acceptance of home-care robots. Surprisingly, openness and trust, rather than age, determine whether people are willing to let robots into their homes and ...

Japan has one of the world’s oldest populations, and a strained health and care workforce. It has also long been the global ...

Physical AI is emerging as one of the next major industrial battlegrounds, with Japan’s push driven more by necessity than anything else. With workforces shrinking and pressure mounting to sustain ...