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Nagqu Horse Racing Festival - China

A rider gestures during a blessing ceremony before a competition at the 2025 edition of a traditional horse racing festival in Nagqu, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, September 7, 2025. The three-day festival, a traditional event on the northern Tibetan Plateau, kicked off in Nagqu on Friday. In addition to traditional horse racing, the festival also features a variety of ethnic sports competitions, art performances, and cultural tourism activities, drawing large crowds of locals and visitors. Photo by Jiang Fan/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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[Breaking News]Largest interactive fountain array

OSAKA, Japan, April 8 Kyodo - Video taken on April 7, 2025, shows a water fountain array to be used in a water show planned at the upcoming World Exposition in Osaka, recognized as the world's largest interactive fountain feature by Guinness World Records. About 300 fountains set up in the 2,179.32-square-meter area will change their flow in accordance with visitors' gestures. (Kyodo)

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Largest interactive fountain array

Photo taken on April 7, 2025, shows a water fountain array to be used in a water show planned at the upcoming World Exposition in Osaka, recognized as the world's largest interactive fountain feature by Guinness World Records. About 300 fountains set up in the 2,179.32-square-meter area will change their flow in accordance with visitors' gestures.

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Largest interactive fountain array

Photo taken on April 7, 2025, shows a water fountain array to be used in a water show planned at the upcoming World Exposition in Osaka, recognized as the world's largest interactive fountain feature by Guinness World Records. About 300 fountains set up in the 2,179.32-square-meter area will change their flow in accordance with visitors' gestures.

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Toyota unveils tour-guide robot at exhibition hall

NAGOYA, Japan - A robot, developed by Toyota Motor Corp., begins escorting visitors around the various displays at Toyota Kaikan Exhibition Hall in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Aug. 27. The new tour-guide robot, called TPR-Robina, is equipped with autonomous movement capabilities for avoiding obstacles and with jointed fingers, allowing it to sign autographs using the Roman alphabet. The 120-centimeter-tall Robina is also able to interact with visitors through a combination of verbal communication and gestures.

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Robot plays museum guide at Okayama's Ohara Museum of Art

OKAYAMA, Japan - A museum guide robot explains Gauguin's ''Te Nave Nave Fenua'' oil painting to visitors in a demonstration at the Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, on Nov. 17. The one-day event, arranged by Tsukuba University and Saitama University, is aimed at exploring better means of communications between humans and robots, organizers say. In this photo, the 1.2-meter robot tries to imitate a museum tour guide's hand gestures in introducing the Gauguin painting.

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Humanoid 'actress' robot catches public eye

TOKYO, Japan - A new humanoid robot that looks and acts like an ''actress'' catches visitors' attention at the 2003 International Robot Exhibition, which opened in Tokyo on Nov. 19. The ''artificial actress,'' developed jointly by Osaka University and robot maker Kokoro Co., can speak, blink and look around, among other facial gestures, the developers said.

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Toyota unveils tour-guide robot at exhibition hall

NAGOYA, Japan - A robot, developed by Toyota Motor Corp., begins escorting visitors around the various displays at Toyota Kaikan Exhibition Hall in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Aug. 27. The new tour-guide robot, called TPR-Robina, is equipped with autonomous movement capabilities for avoiding obstacles and with jointed fingers, allowing it to sign autographs using the Roman alphabet. The 120-centimeter-tall Robina is also able to interact with visitors through a combination of verbal communication and gestures. (Kyodo)

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Robot plays museum guide at Okayama's Ohara Museum of Art

OKAYAMA, Japan - A museum guide robot explains Gauguin's ''Te Nave Nave Fenua'' oil painting to visitors in a demonstration at the Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, on Nov. 17. The one-day event, arranged by Tsukuba University and Saitama University, is aimed at exploring better means of communications between humans and robots, organizers say. In this photo, the 1.2-meter robot tries to imitate a museum tour guide's hand gestures in introducing the Gauguin painting. (Kyodo)

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Charlotte the monkey rambunctious as ever at Japanese zoo

The baby monkey named in May after Britain's new-born princess Charlotte clings to her mother's back at Mount Takasaki Wild Monkey Park in Oita on Aug. 9, 2015. The macaque monkey, who is 3 months old and about 15 centimeters tall, has become a sensation with park visitors as she messes around with the other monkeys in the troop, making lovable gestures and funny faces. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Humanoid 'actress' robot catches public eye

TOKYO, Japan - A new humanoid robot that looks and acts like an ''actress'' catches visitors' attention at the 2003 International Robot Exhibition, which opened in Tokyo on Nov. 19. The ''artificial actress,'' developed jointly by Osaka University and robot maker Kokoro Co., can speak, blink and look around, among other facial gestures, the developers said. (Kyodo)