Robots have played a starring role in science fiction since Karel Čapek introduced the term in his 1921 play Rossum's Universal Robots. We've been exposed to all types of robots, from C-3PO in the ...

Picture a robot. What comes to mind? Perhaps a droid from Star Wars or The Jetsons: a machine that can move, speak and perform tasks all by itself. Or maybe your imagination jumps to humanoid robots à ...

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