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World Robot Conference - Beijing

Robots greet each other during the World Robot Conference 2024 in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 21, 2024. The World Robot Conference 2024 opened here on Wednesday. Photo by Xinhua/Jin Liwang/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CANADA-VANCOUVER-ROBOT-COMPETITION

(240808) -- VANCOUVER, Aug. 8, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- An Engineering Physics student watches his robot in action during a robot competition at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Aug. 8, 2024. Fifteen student teams from UBC participated in a robot competition on Thursday. Each team built a pair of robots to tackle rapid food preparation challenges, aiming to complete as many food orders as possible within the time limit. (Photo by Liang Sen/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CANADA-VANCOUVER-ROBOT-COMPETITION

(240808) -- VANCOUVER, Aug. 8, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Engineering Physics students watch their robot in action during a robot competition at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Aug. 8, 2024. Fifteen student teams from UBC participated in a robot competition on Thursday. Each team built a pair of robots to tackle rapid food preparation challenges, aiming to complete as many food orders as possible within the time limit. (Photo by Liang Sen/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CANADA-VANCOUVER-ROBOT-COMPETITION

(240808) -- VANCOUVER, Aug. 8, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- An Engineering Physics student watches his robot in action during a robot competition at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Aug. 8, 2024. Fifteen student teams from UBC participated in a robot competition on Thursday. Each team built a pair of robots to tackle rapid food preparation challenges, aiming to complete as many food orders as possible within the time limit. (Photo by Liang Sen/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CANADA-VANCOUVER-ROBOT-COMPETITION

(240808) -- VANCOUVER, Aug. 8, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- An Engineering Physics student watches his robot in action during a robot competition at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Aug. 8, 2024. Fifteen student teams from UBC participated in a robot competition on Thursday. Each team built a pair of robots to tackle rapid food preparation challenges, aiming to complete as many food orders as possible within the time limit. (Photo by Liang Sen/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CANADA-VANCOUVER-ROBOT-COMPETITION

(240808) -- VANCOUVER, Aug. 8, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Engineering Physics students watch their robot in action during a robot competition at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Aug. 8, 2024. Fifteen student teams from UBC participated in a robot competition on Thursday. Each team built a pair of robots to tackle rapid food preparation challenges, aiming to complete as many food orders as possible within the time limit. (Photo by Liang Sen/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CANADA-VANCOUVER-ROBOT-COMPETITION

(240808) -- VANCOUVER, Aug. 8, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Engineering Physics students watch their robots in action during a robot competition at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Aug. 8, 2024. Fifteen student teams from UBC participated in a robot competition on Thursday. Each team built a pair of robots to tackle rapid food preparation challenges, aiming to complete as many food orders as possible within the time limit. (Photo by Liang Sen/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CANADA-VANCOUVER-ROBOT-COMPETITION

(240808) -- VANCOUVER, Aug. 8, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Engineering Physics students watch their robots in action during a robot competition at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Aug. 8, 2024. Fifteen student teams from UBC participated in a robot competition on Thursday. Each team built a pair of robots to tackle rapid food preparation challenges, aiming to complete as many food orders as possible within the time limit. (Photo by Liang Sen/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Watching over family using robot

TOKYO, Japan - NEC Corp. shows reporters a small robot called PaPeRo petit in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2013. NEC said it will offer a new service from as early as January 2014 that will allow family members living apart to watch over each other utilizing the robot and cloud computing technology.

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Endoscope operation robot with disposable arm developed

OSAKA, Japan - Atsushi Nishikawa, an associate professor at Osaka University, holding a robotic device with disposable arms for use in endoscope operations. Developed by a research team led by Nishikawa, the disposable arms will cost less than 30,000 yen each, while the main parts will be priced at about 3 million yen each, compared with existing robots that cost more than 10 million yen each, Nishikawa says.

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Mitsubishi Heavy to take orders for Wakamaru robot in Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Aug. 29 it will accept orders from Sept. 16 to Oct. 31 for the Wakamaru humanoid robot (in photo) for use at home. Mitsubishi said it plans to sell 100 of the robot at a price of 1.58 million yen each, including consumption tax, initially for residents of Tokyo's 23 wards. It will select buyers by lot if too many people place orders. Wakamaru, 1-meter high and 30 kilograms in weight, is powered by rechargeable batteries and moves on wheels. It can work as a ''secretary,'' taking note of the owner's schedule and announcing appointments. It can also serve as a ''watchdog'' by alerting the home owner in the event of a break-in, the company said.

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Fujitsu units develop human-assisting robots

TOKYO, Japan - A humanoid robot developed by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Frontech Ltd. pushes a load. Each robot is 1.3 meters tall, weighs 63 kilograms and can move to its destination with the help of eight cameras in its head and a newly developed high-speed three-dimensional image processing system.

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Digital tech brings better dinning experience to Chinese customers

STORY: Digital tech brings better dinning experience to Chinese customers DATELINE: Aug. 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:14 LOCATION: FUZHOU, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: various of a restaurant in FuzhouSOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): XIANG WENCHUN, Restaurant managerSOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): XIANG WENCHUN, Restaurant managerSOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): Dinner in Fuzhou STORYLINE: Digital technologies have been improving customers' dining experience in Fuzhou, China. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): XIANG WENCHUN, Restaurant manager "In this area, we have greeting robots and the dish passing robot. Consumers just need to scan a QR code to order food. It's more convenient for consumers." SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): XIANG WENCHUN, Restaurant manager "We prepare the seasonings for each dish, and then we put them in the cooking robot, which will automatically stir food within a preset time, and when it's done, it will automatically move food onto the plate." SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): Dinner in Fuzhou "When I first saw this, I thought it was quit

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Production line for On-Awa, a solid bath salt sold by Earth Chemical Co.

Each line is equipped with one robot that collects the correct number of bath salts and transfers them to the boxing process. The collecting robots are made by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, and in front of each of the four robots, bath salts produced in its own line are placed. If a problem occurs in the production line and bath salts do not flow, the robots automatically determine the problem and accumulate the stored bath salts. If the stoppage is for a short time, it will not affect the accumulation work. Shigekazu Terada, plant manager of the Ako Plant in Ako City, Hyogo Prefecture, says, 'We are also using robots in the process of stacking product cases on pallets, and both types of robots are contributing to efficiency. (Photo taken on January 29, 2020, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Dressing and undressing assistance robot at Kyushu Institute of Technology Graduate School

These cases are stored as a learning database. The robot will be able to respond to the differences between each person and each piece of clothing. The robot is a twin-armed robot with a payload of 2.3 kilograms, and it is a cooperative type, so there is no risk of injury to people even if it bumps into them while working. The placement of a camera that can respond to the sudden movement of a person is an issue, but Professor Shibata says, "In large facilities or places where the changing room can be fixed, such as hospitals, the camera can be installed on the ceiling. They aim to make improvements and put the system to practical use as soon as possible. (= December 20, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Largest robot cheerleading squad

Photo taken on Sept. 16, 2021, shows 100 humanoid robots, each named "Pepper," cheering for the SoftBank Hawks baseball team in the stands at PayPay Dome in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. Guinness World Records has certified them as the "largest robot cheerleading squad" in the world.

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Largest robot cheerleading squad

Photo taken on Sept. 16, 2021, shows 100 humanoid robots, each named "Pepper," cheering for the SoftBank Hawks baseball team in the stands at PayPay Dome in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. Guinness World Records has certified them as the "largest robot cheerleading squad" in the world.

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Largest robot cheerleading squad

Photo taken on Sept. 16, 2021, shows 100 humanoid robots, each named "Pepper," cheering for the SoftBank Hawks baseball team in the stands at PayPay Dome in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. Guinness World Records has certified them as the "largest robot cheerleading squad" in the world.

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A twin-armed robot by Professor Tetsuya Ogata and his colleagues at Waseda University

Professor Tetsuya Ogata and his teamat Waseda University have developed a technology that allows a deep learning model to learn and perform multiple actions. They demonstrated the function by applying it to a twin-armed robot folding towels.In the case of folding towels, four motions were learned, including folding the towel from the edge and repositioning the towel. We trained the deep learning model so that the internal state of the model is the same at the beginning and end of each action. For each of the four actions, we used a large deep learning model with about 300 cells and 400 steps. In this study, we learned multiple actions by connecting them to a single model. In the future, we will apply the model to complex operations such as skewering to verify the learning method suitable for each operation. The technology for using deep learning to identify images is already in the practical stage. Photo taken on October 16, 2019, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Hokuriku Electric Power's "Assist Arm" robot for power distribution work

Hokuriku Electric Power Company has completed the development of the "Assist Arm" (photo), a robot for power distribution work, and has begun deploying it. The robot will assist in the construction work, which used to be done by two people in a high-altitude work truck, enabling the work to be done by one person. This is the first time such a robot has been used in Japan. The company plans to adopt 10 more robots, including those of group companies, by the end of fiscal year 2019. The robots will be used for the most frequent part of the power distribution work, the wire separator work. In the past, high-voltage wires were cut and the cut wires were connected to each other with a temporary equipment called a wire separator by lifting a stick-shaped tool weighing about 10 kilograms. The robot will be able to cut wires and grab objects with an arm that can move in six axes with a single control grip, saving labor. Photo taken on November 20, 2019, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Hyogo Seimitsu Kogyosho builds its own robot system.

Hyogo Seimitsu Kogyosho (Hyogo Ward, Kobe City) has started to build a robot system to improve productivity within the company. In the past, cast parts weighing several dozen kilograms were manually fed into machine tools and the finished products were taken out. The tip of the robot's arm was developed and manufactured independently, and a light-weight yet high-strength mechanism that can withstand the transportation of heavy objects was adopted. The lathe process can be reduced to about one-third of the conventional process, which will lead to an optimal allocation of human resources in the plant. At the Sasayama Plant, the products to be processed by each machine tool are separated, minimizing the need for setup changes. The company aims to further improve its production efficiency by optimizing the use of robots within the company. Hyogo Seimitsu Kogyosho's Sasayama Plant in Sasayama, Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, November 5, 2019; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Kohyei Setsubi's Snake-Type Piping Exploration Robot

Kohyei Setsubi Kogyo (Yamagata City) is developing a business using a piping exploration robot. Within this year, the company will start a rental business of the robot in the three northern prefectures of Yamagata, Miyagi, and Fukushima. The target customers are facility construction companies, and the company aims to cultivate new projects for renovation and reconstruction of buildings by offering diagnosis services in the pipes. The rental business of the piping exploration robot is targeted at companies engaged in facility construction in the three southeastern prefectures. Each of them will recruit one or two distributors, including their group companies, by the end of this year. Each distributor will be assigned a cooperating agency to provide services such as pipe diagnosis using the robot. The company expects to expand its business to the eastern Japan area in the future. Photo taken on August 19, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Fujitsu units develop human-assisting robots

TOKYO, Japan - A humanoid robot developed by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Frontech Ltd. pushes a load. Each robot is 1.3 meters tall, weighs 63 kilograms and can move to its destination with the help of eight cameras in its head and a newly developed high-speed three-dimensional image processing system. (Kyodo)

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Dinosaur-shaped house-sitting robot

TOKYO, Japan - Venture firm tmsuk Co. and Sanyo Electric Co. have jointly developed a dinosaur-shaped house-sitting robot nicknamed ''Banryu'' and say they will take orders from Dec. 1. The robot will be sold at under $16,500 each. Banryu, unveiled in Tokyo on Nov. 6, will let an owner check on what is happening in an empty house from outside via a mobile phone. (Kyodo)

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PCR testing robot

Photo taken Feb. 4, 2021, at Fujita Health University Hospital in Toyoake, central Japan, shows an automatic PCR testing system, unveiled to the media the same day. The private medical university will introduce by March the high-speed coronavirus testing robot, capable of checking 2,500 people per day, with its test result for each person requiring only 80 minutes.

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PCR testing robot

Photo taken Feb. 4, 2021, at Fujita Health University Hospital in Toyoake, central Japan, shows an automatic PCR testing system, unveiled to the media the same day. The private medical university will introduce by March the high-speed coronavirus testing robot, capable of checking 2,500 people per day, with its test result for each person requiring only 80 minutes.

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PCR testing robot

Photo taken Feb. 4, 2021, at Fujita Health University Hospital in Toyoake, central Japan, shows an automatic PCR testing system, unveiled to the media the same day. The private medical university will introduce by March the high-speed coronavirus testing robot, capable of checking 2,500 people per day, with its test result for each person requiring only 80 minutes.

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PCR testing robot

Photo taken on Feb. 4, 2021, at Fujita Health University Hospital in Toyoake, central Japan, shows a container housing an automatic PCR testing system, unveiled to the media the same day. The private medical university will introduce by March the high-speed coronavirus testing robot, capable of checking 2,500 people per day, with its test result for each person requiring only 80 minutes.

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PCR testing robot

Photo taken on Feb. 4, 2021, at Fujita Health University Hospital in Toyoake, central Japan, shows a container housing an automatic PCR testing system, unveiled to the media the same day. The private medical university will introduce by March the high-speed coronavirus testing robot, capable of checking 2,500 people per day, with its test result for each person requiring only 80 minutes.

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PCR testing robot

Photo taken on Feb. 4, 2021, at Fujita Health University Hospital in Toyoake, central Japan, shows a container housing an automatic PCR testing system, unveiled to the media the same day. The private medical university will introduce by March the high-speed coronavirus testing robot, capable of checking 2,500 people per day, with its test result for each person requiring only 80 minutes.

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Mitsubishi Heavy to take orders for Wakamaru robot in Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Aug. 29 it will accept orders from Sept. 16 to Oct. 31 for the Wakamaru humanoid robot (in photo) for use at home. Mitsubishi said it plans to sell 100 of the robot at a price of 1.58 million yen each, including consumption tax, initially for residents of Tokyo's 23 wards. It will select buyers by lot if too many people place orders. Wakamaru, 1-meter high and 30 kilograms in weight, is powered by rechargeable batteries and moves on wheels. It can work as a ''secretary,'' taking note of the owner's schedule and announcing appointments. It can also serve as a ''watchdog'' by alerting the home owner in the event of a break-in, the company said. (Kyodo)

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Evolta Neo robot triathlon

An Evolta Neo robot powered by two dry cell batteries takes part in a triathlon in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2019. Three of the robots completed the 5-kilometer course, with each taking part in swimming, cycling and running. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Evolta Neo robot triathlon

An Evolta Neo robot powered by two dry cell batteries takes part in a triathlon in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2019. Three of the robots completed the 5-kilometer course, with each taking part in swimming, cycling and running. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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World Robot Summit 2018

A Swiss university team demonstrates an electric wheelchair to be used in "cybathlon," an international competition among people with physical disabilities, at the World Robot Summit at Tokyo Big Sight on Oct. 17, 2018. In cybathlon, disabled people compete against each other to execute everyday tasks using technical assistance systems. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bandai, Microsoft to jointly market speaking toy robot

NEW YORK, the United States - Bandai America Inc., a U.S. unit of Japan's Bandai Co., and Microsoft Corp. plan to market the Power Rangers toy, based on a Power Rangers character in the popular U.S. TV series, ''Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue,'' in September. The speaking toy robot can be plugged into a television during the broadcast of the TV series and will automatically download up to seven phrases or sounds from each episode in about a minute. The Deluxe Interactive Omega Megazord toy robot can play back such phrases or sounds by pressing a button following the downloading process.