A catering robot distributes noodles during the 2025 International Robot Exhibition (iREX) in Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 5, 2025. The ...

As Japan faces a caregiver shortage, a new survey shows that trust, not age, shapes willingness to adopt home-care robots and ...

Computer science and philosophy scholar Fernando Nascimento took to the airwaves recently to feature in a discussion on Maine public radio about “humanoid robots.” How close are robots to replicating ...

Usage is growing fast. Maoxiang (“catbox”), the biggest companionship app in China, has around 1.2m monthly active users on Apple devices, reckons SensorTower, a market-intelligence firm. And 42% of ...

A 32-year-old Japanese woman, known as Kano, recently held a symbolic wedding ceremony with an AI persona named Klaus she created using ChatGPT. The union is not legally recognised but represents an ...