As would be expected from a country that has been pioneering advances in this field since the 1970s, Japan is home to a number of different robot cafes. But while others utilise high degrees of ...

Inventor Kentaro Yoshifuji’s robots allow people to work at the Dawn cafe from anywhere in the world – ‘teleportation’ technology that could open up new demographics for Japan’s ...

Japanese Cafe Employees Paralysed People To Control Robots To Serve Customers The robots that serve customers at Tokyo's Dawn Ver Café are controlled remotely by people who are physically ...

One thing the company is keen to emphasise is that this is not only a solution for disabled people. The Independent meets one member of staff – via their OriHime robot – who lives in Italy with her ...

Instead, Japan unfolds like a novel, or maybe a manga comic, our 17 days jammed with pig cafes, tea ceremonies, bullet trains and robot cafes. For our children, aged nine, 11 and 13, it was their ...

A robot greeted me at the entrance and explained how the cafe works, then I spoke to my robot waiter and with the mini robots by the bar. 'Because I can speak Japanese, I was able to learn about ...

Japan has a new robot cafe where customers can enjoy coffee brewed and served by a robot barista. The robot named Sawyer debuted this week at Henna Cafe in Tokyo's downtown business and shopping ...

SoftBank Group Corp. Pepper humanoid robots stand behind a counter while customers place orders at the Pepper Parlor cafe in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Photo by Kyoshi Ota/Bloomberg ...

Robot barista named "Sawyer" makes a coffee at Henna Cafe, Japanese meaning "Strange Cafe"in Tokyo, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. The cafe's robot barista brews and serves coffee as the rapidly aging country ...