Fanuc shares hit a record high after partnering with Google to integrate Gemini Enterprise and the Intrinsic robotics platform into its industrial robot systems worldwide.

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 ...

The newest employee at a Tokyo 7-Eleven works through the night without a single break. It silently stocks drinks and other products with mechanical precision, and cleans and mops the floor whenever ...

Physical AI is emerging as one of the next major industrial battlegrounds, with Japan’s push driven more by necessity than anything else. With workforces shrinking and pressure mounting to sustain ...

Japan has one of the world’s oldest populations, and a strained health and care workforce. It has also long been the global ...