The robots so far looked like robots, but what about the ones with more human-like features? At the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, aka the Miraikan, he met Erica: a humanoid ...

The exhibit, titled “Kimi to Robot" (You and Robots), was organized by the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), The Asahi Shimbun and TV Asahi Corp. It opened at the ...

Kimiya Ishikawa, chief executive of Silver Wing Social Care Corporation which runs Shintomi, said Japan's affinity for technology and the familiarity of robots in popular culture, such as cartoons ...