As Japan continues to battle record numbers of bear attacks, a robot wolf invented to scare the animals away has become a surprise hit, with inquiries for the product tripling in recent months. The ...

One approach my group is exploring is giving robots a degree of “local intelligence” in their sensorised bodies. Humans ...

With nearly 30% of its people aged 65 or over, Japan saw more than 18,000 elderly individuals with dementia wander off in a single year, with tr ...

As Japan continues to see a rise in dementia patients, the country is actively adopting advanced IT technologies to address ...

Skild AI was founded in 2023, by former Meta researchers and backed by Amazon and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company ...

The government now considers dementia one of its most urgent policy challenges. The Health Ministry projects that ...

Japan's SoftBank Group and Nvidia are in talks to invest in Skild AI, in a more than $1 billion funding round that could ...

SoftBank Group and Nvidia are in talks to invest in Skild AI, in a more than $1 billion funding round that could value the maker of foundation models for robots at around $14 billion.

A Japanese company has announced plans to start commercial production of a riding robot that combines the functions of a ...

A wolf that isn't alive but still howls, growls and flashes red eyes is suddenly in the spotlight in Japan, where a jump in bear attacks has turned the mechanical creature into a surprise ...