are being put through their paces at Fujita Health University Hospital at Toyoake in Aichi, Japan. Assigning these routine tasks to robots could free up nurses to spend more time on direct patient ...

In Tokyo, a humanoid robot is being tested as a potential caregiver for Japan’s aging population. Dubbed AIREC (AI-driven ...

Faced with an aging population and labor shortages, Japanese businesses are increasingly relying on service robots to supplement their workforce, according to Bloomberg. Research firm Fuji Keizai ...

New biomarkers for various diseases, robots for hospitals, blood tests for depression and Alzheimer's disease. These are just some of the innovations that researchers in Japan are developing in ...

The 150-kg artificial intelligence-driven humanoid robot called AIREC is a prototype future "caregiver" for Japan's rapidly aging population and chronic shortage of aged-care workers. "Given our ...

It could be helping care for Japan’s aging population by 2030. Last month experts said robot housekeepers could be a reality within a decade. The human-like machines will use artificial ...

A hospital in central Paris has had ... Separate research in the EU, Japan and the US has produced similar robots, but they either lack ARI's ability to multitask or have been too costly to ...

A researcher at Waseda University’s laboratory in Tokyo, Japan, plays an elderly patient to demonstrate how AIREC, an artificial intelligence-driven humanoid robot, can roll a person to their ...