Japan’s government is actively pushing robots into jobs that workers increasingly refuse to do, from lifting elderly patients in nursing homes to running repetitive tasks at rural factories. The ...

By Kentaro Okasaka TOKYO, July 22 (Reuters) - Noetra, a government-backed company developing a foundational model for physical artificial intelligence and robots, is the "last chance" for Japan as it ...

Japan just committed $6.1B to deploy 10 million AI robots in healthcare, food, and factories by 2040. Here's who's building Noetra and what it means in 2026.

A government-backed A.I. factory, new robotics partnerships and Nvidia’s Cosmos models are placing Japan at the center of ...

Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a ...

Hironobu Tamba left SoftBank to lead Noetra, a $6bn state-backed bet on Japan-built AI for robots. He calls it a last chance for the country.

TOKYO (AP) — Mechanical hands dexterous enough to thread a needle, childlike dancing robots and adult-sized ones to help with deliveries were on display Thursday as the Humanoids Summit Tokyo opened.

Humanoid robots are getting a new gig as baggage handlers and cargo loaders at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport—part of a Japan Airlines experiment to address a human labor shortage as airport visitor numbers ...