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AI-powered industrial robot

A Yaskawa Electric Corp. robot packs a parcel during an international robot exhibition in Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2025, with its arms having a human-like range of movement.

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AI-powered industrial robot

A Yaskawa Electric Corp. robot packs a parcel during an international robot exhibition in Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2025, with its arms having a human-like range of movement.

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Robots Welcome World Media At The SCO - Tianjin

A photographer is attracted by a robot demonstrating the dexterity of its arms at the media center for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2025 in north China's Tianjin, on Aug. 30, 2025. A variety of robots have attracted numerous eyes at the media center as the SCO Summit 2025 is held in this port city from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1. Photo by Wang Jianhua /Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CHINA-JIANGSU-CHANGZHOU-NEW ENERGY-COMPANY-HORWIN (CN)

(240602) -- CHANGZHOU, June 2, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- This photo taken on June 1, 2024 shows automated robot arms working at a workshop of Horwin in Changzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province. Founded in 2016, Horwin is a pioneering manufacturer of intelligent electric motorcycles, primarily targeting the overseas market. Boasting over 200 core technology patents, Horwin's electric motorcycles are sold in more than 100 countries and regions. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Liu Wenhui)

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CHINA-JIANGSU-CHANGZHOU-NEW ENERGY-COMPANY-HORWIN (CN)

(240602) -- CHANGZHOU, June 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on June 1, 2024 shows automated robot arms working at a workshop of Horwin in Changzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province. Founded in 2016, Horwin is a pioneering manufacturer of intelligent electric motorcycles, primarily targeting the overseas market. Boasting over 200 core technology patents, Horwin's electric motorcycles are sold in more than 100 countries and regions. (Xinhua/Liu Wenhui)

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Xinhua Headlines: Xi presides over meeting on promoting new breakthrough in full revitalization of northeast China

(231027) -- BEIJING, Oct. 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 17, 2023 shows robot arms working on the production line at a glass factory in Jiamusi, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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Xinhua Headlines: China continues to drive global economic growth

(230311) -- BEIJING, March 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 17, 2023 shows robot arms working on a production line at a glass factory in Jiamusi, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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Xinhua Headlines: Decoding China's economic recovery at "two sessions"

(230306) -- BEIJING, March 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 17, 2023 shows robot arms working on a production line at a glass factory in Jiamusi, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-GLASS PRODUCTION (CN)

(230218) -- JIAMUSI, Feb. 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 17, 2023 shows robot arms working on a production line at a glass factory in Jiamusi, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-GLASS PRODUCTION (CN)

(230218) -- JIAMUSI, Feb. 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 17, 2023 shows robot arms working on a production line at a glass factory in Jiamusi, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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Japanese space lab Kibo completed

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata (black top) manipulates robot arms trying to attach a module, brought by Space Shuttle Endeavour, to the Japanese laboratory Kibo to complete the facility. (NASA TV)

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Japanese space lab Kibo completed

TOKYO, Japan - A module (R) is about to be attached to a part of the Japanese laboratory Kibo (L) by robot arms as the last Kibo component. The operation was completed a day after Space Shuttle Endeavour brought the module. (NASA TV)

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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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Tohoku University develops dancing robot that can follow lead

TOKYO, Japan - A robot developed by a team at Tohoku University dances waltz following a human dancer's lead. Kazuhiro Kosuge, the team's leader, said July 15 the robot can predict the dancer's next move through hand pressure applied to its arms and back. He said the team's aim is not to create a substitute for a human dancer, but to help further technology for developing a robot that can move in sync with humans.

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Sony expects to sell 60,000 Aibo pet robots by year-end

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitada Doi, president of Sony Corp.'s Digital Creatures Laboratory, smiles with an ''Aibo'' pet robot in arms at a Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan press luncheon Nov. 7. He said the company expects to sell at least 60,000 units of the new-version pet robot by the end of the year.

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Kyoto institute develops robot that moves neck, arms freely

OSAKA, Japan - ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories says on Aug. 10 in Osaka that the Kyoto prefectural research institute has developed a robot (R) that can move its neck and arms as naturally as humans do. At 114 centimeters tall, 52 cm wide and weighing 39 kilograms, the robot moves without wiring and can operate independently.

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Riken Invents Nursing Robot

AICHI, JAPAN - FEB. 23: The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, known as Riken, one of Japan's top research institute, announced it invented a new robot to help care the patients by help them by taking them up in the robot's arms. The robot, dubbed Robea, can act like a human with censors to weigh the weight of patients automatically. Chisato Miyaji who experienced the robot, which took her from a sofa to a wheelchair, said she felt her body was moved up very gently just like a human helper. The robot itself is 1.5 meters tall and 140 kilograms heavy but the weight was reduced by 90 kilos from the previous model. Riken made the robot public for the press on Monday February 23 at its facility here in Nagoya, central Japan.

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Robot arms draw athletes' movements

Four robot arms draw athletes' movements on sand at Ueno Park in Tokyo on July 27, 2021. The event hosted by a group of artists based in London opened to media people ahead of public demonstration the following day as the Tokyo Olympics are under way.

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Robot arms draw athletes' movements

Four robot arms draw athletes' movements on sand at Ueno Park in Tokyo on July 27, 2021. The event hosted by a group of artists based in London opened to media people ahead of public demonstration the following day as the Tokyo Olympics are under way.

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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. (Kyodo)

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Hitachi develops robot facilitating warehouse work

Hitachi Ltd. shows the press in Noda, Chiba Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Aug. 25, 2015, a prototype robot with two arms developed to pick up items from warehouse shelves and pack them into a box. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hitachi develops robot to facilitate warehouse work

An official of Hitachi Ltd. shows the press in Noda, Chiba Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Aug. 25, 2015, a prototype robot with two arms developed to pick up items from warehouse shelves and pack them into a box. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Robot" artificial legs

Hirotada Ototake, a Japanese writer born without arms and legs and best known for his 1998 best-selling memoir, "No One's Perfect," is pictured in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2019. Ototake has taken part in a project to enable him to walk by himself using electrically operated "robot" artificial legs developed by a Sony laboratory. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Robot" artificial legs

Hirotada Ototake, a Japanese writer born without arms and legs and best known for his 1998 best-selling memoir, "No One's Perfect," is pictured in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2019. Ototake has taken part in a project to enable him to walk by himself using electrically operated "robot" artificial legs developed by a Sony laboratory. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Robot" artificial legs

Hirotada Ototake, a Japanese writer born without arms and legs and best known for his 1998 best-selling memoir, "No One's Perfect," is interviewed in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2019. Ototake has taken part in a project to enable him to walk by himself using electrically operated "robot" artificial legs developed by a Sony laboratory. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JR Tokai's shinkansen polishing robot shows it is ready to shine

Central Japan Railway Co. unveils a new robot, tasked with the job of using its multiple brush-tipped arms to polish the distinctively shaped nose of shinkansen bullet trains, at the company's Hamamatsu plant in Shizuoka Prefecture during an event for train enthusiasts on July 22, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese space lab Kibo completed

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata (black top) manipulates robot arms trying to attach a module, brought by Space Shuttle Endeavour, to the Japanese laboratory Kibo to complete the facility. (NASA TV) (Kyodo)

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Japanese space lab Kibo completed

TOKYO, Japan - A module (R) is about to be attached to a part of the Japanese laboratory Kibo (L) by robot arms as the last Kibo component. The operation was completed a day after Space Shuttle Endeavour brought the module. (NASA TV) (Kyodo)

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Tohoku University develops dancing robot that can follow lead

TOKYO, Japan - A robot developed by a team at Tohoku University dances waltz following a human dancer's lead. Kazuhiro Kosuge, the team's leader, said July 15 the robot can predict the dancer's next move through hand pressure applied to its arms and back. He said the team's aim is not to create a substitute for a human dancer, but to help further technology for developing a robot that can move in sync with humans. (Kyodo)

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Sony expects to sell 60,000 Aibo pet robots by year-end

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitada Doi, president of Sony Corp.'s Digital Creatures Laboratory, smiles with an ''Aibo'' pet robot in arms at a Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan press luncheon Nov. 7. He said the company expects to sell at least 60,000 units of the new-version pet robot by the end of the year.

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Kyoto institute develops robot that moves neck, arms freely

OSAKA, Japan - ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories says on Aug. 10 in Osaka that the Kyoto prefectural research institute has developed a robot (R) that can move its neck and arms as naturally as humans do. At 114 centimeters tall, 52 cm wide and weighing 39 kilograms, the robot moves without wiring and can operate independently.

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Researchers develop robot copy of gibbon

NAGOYA, Japan - A robot of a gibbon, developed by a group of researchers at Nagoya University in central Japan, hangs on to a bar in a demonstration at the university on Feb. 8. The researchers made the robot ape with the aim of using it to develop high-quality industrial robots. It is 80 centimeters tall and 150 cm wide when both of its arms are outstretched, and weighs about 10 kilograms.

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Japan to develop robot to deal with N-accidents

TOKYO, Japan - The Ministry of International Trade and Industry and several Japanese firms will jointly develop a remote-controlled robot that can deal with radiation leaks like that at Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, in September 1999, ministry officials say Jan. 8. The photo shows a trial robot the ministry developed about 10 years ago with two remote-controlled arms and four legs. It was not designed to work amid large doses of radiation in accidents.