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The body of a second woman has been found during the search for two sisters who went missing in Aberdeen last month. Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both aged 32, were last seen on CCTV on Market Street ...

Tmsuk (source in Japanese) adds that it will continue to develop robots that can handle “places where humans cannot enter,” “work that is dangerous for humans to do,” and “environments ...

Welcome to the FUTURE of dining! In this video, I’m taking you to a 24-hour vending machine café in Tokyo, Japan – where ...

Start-up firms in the Kansai region in western Japan and the Tokyo metropolitan area have developed robots that follow actions performed by human operators in real time, bringing droids far closer ...

Jin Kawaguchiya gave up a career in finance to help revive Japan’s ailing dairy industry -- one robot at a time. In a country that relies increasingly on imported foods like cheese and butter, Japan’s ...

What we’re absolutely not supposed to do is use a sex robot, although, it seems, many people already do. In 2023, the global market for sex-tech was valued at nearly $30 billion; by 2032, it is ...

Takeda Pharmaceuticals has named Julie Kim as the first woman to lead the 244-year-old Japanese drugmaker, a rarity in senior management in the world’s fourth-largest economy. Kim, a US citizen ...

Subsequent innovations include Compressorhead, a robot band using MIDI-sequenced real instruments, and Z-Machinese, a Japanese band with uniquely designed robotic musicians. According to researche ...

The scandal centers on Masahiro Nakai, a former leader of Japan's once-hugely popular boy band SMAP, and his costly settlement with a woman over the alleged sex assault at a 2023 dinner party that ...

ClaraMunt was also fascinated by Japanese cartoons after seeing the "Mazinger Z" robot anime show on TV when he was young. Although ClaraMunt is an English teacher, he also has taught Japanese ...

KIGALI — Several women in brightly colored aprons busily prepare lunch in the kitchen, while two Japanese interns help some older children with their basic English studies. Cheerful voices echo in the ...