In short: Robots designed by Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) could soon be accomplishing tasks as precise as hanging drywall, based on recently spotted ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Boston ...

It’s been a few years since Japan’s AIST updated its HRP humanoid robot line. While the last iteration, HRP-4C, strived to make the robot seem as human as possible with a realistic female head, the ...

Japanese researchers have built a robot that can hang plaster. Things were looking a bit grim for Japan's peerless robot heritage after Honda announced it was winding down its Asimo humanoid back in ...

Construction is dangerous work. Between the powerful equipment, hazardous materials, and often-precarious environments, it’s not all that surprising that construction workers experience frequent ...

Japan is big on robots and robot research with some of the bots being aimed directly at hobbyists and home use and others being serious R&D platforms. A new bot out of Japan is called the HRP-5P and ...

Japan’s Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Institute have created HRP-5P, a humanoid robot that can perform common construction tasks, including installing drywall. As TechCrunch reports, ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Japan’s Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, or AIST, has developed a humanoid robot that can ...

A Japanese company has developed a humanoid robot that could one day supplement Japan’s manual labor shortage. Called the HRP-5P by Japan’s Advanced Industrial Science and Technology institute, the ...

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot is capable of some impressive feats, but researchers from Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) institute have created what looks ...

Delivering packages, shopping for groceries and even building a house. These are some of the skills new robots presented at the World Robot Summit in Tokyo can perform. From enormous 'construction ...

We all know by now that the robot apocalypse is coming. It won’t happen tomorrow, or the next day, or even next year, but at some point in the future we’ll all be slaves to AI-powered bots of our own ...