Hen'na Hotels in Japan are run almost entirely by robots. So far, there are two robot hotels open —one in Nagasaki and one in Tokyo.

The future is truly upon us — because the next time your check-in luggage gets battered, you could be blaming a robot. Starting in May, Japan Airlines, in partnership with GMO AI & Robotics, will ...

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 robot pauses at the edge of the room as an engineer checks its sensors. Then, with a soft mechanical hum, this humanoid machine begins to move. It lifts a mannequin from a bed, slowly and ...

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 ...

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.

The human touch is hard to replace, but there are tasks that are better suited to mechanical engineering. These hotels are making the best use of robots to give their staff more time to serve guests.

AI is expected to address labour shortages and the lack of successors in Japan's food service industry. Read more at ...