Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 60-foot Japanese robot is in testing mode in the port city of Yokohama. The robot is based on a character from the popular 1970s ...

A Japanese company has made a popular anime cartoon larger than life, unveiling a massive, 55,000-pound “Gundam” robot that stands 59 feet tall. New footage released Monday shows the mammoth machine, ...

Japanese are more accepting of robots because the native Shinto religion often blurs boundaries between the animate and inanimate, experts say. To the Japanese psyche, the idea of a humanoid robot ...

TOKYO — Nobuyo Oyama, best known as the raspy voice of Doraemon, the beloved cartoon robotic cat from the future, has died. She was 90. Oyama, who voiced Doraemon for more than a quarter century, died ...