Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robots at the cafe are piloted by people working from all over Japan – and the world (Adam Withnall/The Independent) Japan is ...

A café partially staffed by robots recently opened in downtown Tokyo, giving guests the opportunity to live out a sci-fi fantasy. It also provides jobs to those with physical limitations or ...

Japan’s Insane Robot Cat Maid Cafe 🤖 If you’ve heard of (or been to one of) Japan’s maid cafes, then you probably know that they are equal parts surreal and fascinating. This particular one, however, ...

As a lonely, bedridden child, Ory Yoshifuji wanted nothing more than a second body he could use to attend school and see his friends. For three and a half years, sickness forced Ory to stay at home, ...

Tokyo: Japan, in its spirit of being futuristic in nature, has a unique café where robot waiters are operated remotely by people with severe physical disabilities. This novel venture, known as the ...

Japan is running out of workers. With an unemployment rate of just 2.5 per cent, a rapidly ageing population and declining birth rate, finding enough people to fill roles as taxi drivers, baristas and ...