I spent 4 nights at Yotel Tokyo Ginza, a hybrid robot hotel in Tokyo. The robot room service and check-in was novel, but it has a way to go.

Deep in Tokyo's Shinjuku district is a place of wonder and technology, an explosive spectacle of robots, glitz and lasers: the Robot Restaurant. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes ...

VIDEO SHOWS: TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC ROBOT MASCOT MIRAITOWA AND PARALYMPIC MASCOT SOMEITY UNVEILED IN FRONT OF STUDENTS, ROBOTS BEING DEMONSTRATED, STUDENTS SPEAKING ABOUT ROBOTS, STUDENTS WAVING AT ROBOTS ...

Compact robots that can rest on human shoulders are guiding tourists around Tokyo, but their creator is touting a more ...

The field support robot will be fetching all sorts of objects during the weekend's track and field events. It's one of several robots designed to... Who's a good boy at the Olympics? The Field Support ...

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics organisers launched their ambitious Robot Project on Friday, unveiling two of the robots designed to assist supporters, workers and athletes at ...

A cat-like robot has been deployed at an unmanned souvenir shop in an airport terminal near Tokyo as part of efforts to ...

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TOKYO — Tokyo’s Olympics may become known as the “Robot Games.” Organizers on Friday showed off robots that will be used at the new National Stadium to provide assistance for fans using wheelchairs.

Athletes may be the focus of the Olympics, but in recent years the competition has also become an important technology showcase for tech savvy host countries. Nowhere will that be more true than in ...

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