Is there anything that would make you prouder to be an American than seeing an American-built robot defeat a giant Japanese robot in an epic battle? Japan, of course, is the world capital of ...

You may have seen the MegaBots bot at Maker Faire 2015, where it fired paintballs at a defenseless art car. We can forgive a lot of bad behavior when it comes to giant robots.

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Electronics giant Panasonic has also joined ... such robots become a common sight on the streets of Japan. One is traffic safety. While the robots are equipped with a range of safety mechanisms ...

Japan’s population is the oldest in the world ... technology from space exploration to build an AI-assisted farming robot. “In the past 20 years or so, 50% of the farmers have retired ...