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Japanese Robots

PHOTOS: Tokyo's Craziest Cabaret Cafe

Gail Nakada | Posted 04.16.2013 | Travel
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Gail Nakada

It feels like a sequence in a Sci Fi film or a bonus stage in a video game.

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Aging Creatively: Japan's Futuristic Approach

Ron Cappello | Posted 10.15.2012 | Fifty
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Ron Cappello

How is the experience of aging reshaping consumer demand and behavior domestically and globally? We examine how a nation's fascination with robots might help ease the burdens of a fast-growing elderly population.

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Japanese Robots To Perform Field Work In Devastated Tsunami Zone

Posted 01.06.2012 | World
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In a region of the world that's down on its luck, robots are stepping up to the plate to save Japan's ravaged agricultural production. At least that's...

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7 Ways Robots Are Replacing Humans

The Huffington Post | Jason O. Gilbert | Posted 10.02.2011 | Technology
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I've seen the first thirty minutes of Terminator enough times to know that murderous robots are eventually going to take over the world and enslave us...

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Mating With a Machine? Maybe It's Not a Cop Out

Claudia Ricci | Posted 09.12.2011 | Technology
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Claudia Ricci

Given a choice between a man who brutalizes and murders, and a robot, I would opt for the robot in a heartbeat.

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Humans Mating Machines? Maybe I'm Robo-Phobic...

Claudia Ricci | Posted 09.10.2011 | Books
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Claudia Ricci

Sherry Turkle's fascinating new book, Alone Together, provides a startling exploration of the way digital technology and the fast-changing field of robotics are turning emotional connections among humans upside down.

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Buy A Custom Robot That Looks Just Like You (PHOTO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
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*See photo below* If you're wondering what to put on your wishlist for the holidays, here's a gift idea you might not have considered: your robot twi...

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CEATEC's Best Robots Ever (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
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CEATEC 2009 launches October 6, and in honor of the cutting-edge tech and consumer-electronics show (which has wowed us year after year ) we decided t...

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Japan Looks to a Robot Future

AP | HIROKO TABUCHI | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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TOKYO — At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fe...

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