TOKYO — Robotics, artificial intelligence and connectivity are the buzzwords of the day. So when Toyota Motor Corp. offered reporters in Japan a chance to take home its first retail-ready robot, the ...

The tiny robot captures the spirit of one of the country's most famous cartoons. Sept. 5, 2013— -- "Good morning to everyone on Earth." These are among the first words said by Kirobo today, the ...

Kirobo said its first words, in Japanese, aboard the space station on Aug. 21, 2013. The world's first talking robot in space has uttered its first words in orbit, echoing famed moonwalking astronaut ...

It can get lonely in space, even for a robot. Kirobo, the Japanese humanoid robot who is modeled after Astro Boy, was developed to entertain astronauts in space. But now that the robot's trip home has ...

In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can hear a little robot speaking greetings in Japanese. Toyota announced today that a robot spoke from space for the first time. On August 21, the ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dentsu Inc. (TOKYO:4324) (ISIN:JP3551520004) (President & CEO: Tadashi Ishii; Head Office: Tokyo; Capital: 74,609.81 million yen) announced today that on December 6, 2013, ...

(Nanowerk News) Dentsu Inc., the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), Robo Garage Co., Ltd. and Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announce today that the ...

A potentially significant moment in history will occur in the first few months of 2017 as Toyota's Kirobo Mini companion robot is released commercially. To be fully unveiled to the world tomorrow at ...

Toyota Motor Corp (ADR) (NYSE: TM) has launched a new mini robot called Kirobo. The piece of hardware is not exactly an artificial intelligence robot-instead, it offers the same kind of emotional ...

Driving can sometimes be a solitary affair, heading from place to place with only the road and the radio for company, but that could change with Kirobo Mini. It’s a small robot developed by Toyota ...

The humanoid robot created to keep astronauts on the International Space Station company seems to have caught a case of intergalactic ennui. Cheer up, Kirobo! Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about ...

The world's first talking robot in space has uttered its first words in orbit, echoing famed moonwalking astronaut Neil Armstrong's "one small step" line, but this time for all robot-kind. The small ...