Japan has long been looking at how it might use robots to provide care for the elderly, and with a rapidly aging population, and a birth rate that continues to fall, the issue has taken on growing ...

Japan is known for its love of robots. Japanese inventors have been following a trend of creating a robot for every occasion. One of the newest Japanese robots is the Robear, developed by Riken, a ...

A robot with the face of a bear cub could replace nurses for some jobs in hospitals and nursing homes, such as lifting patients in and out of bed. Robear, developed by scientists at RIKEN, is an ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists from RIKEN and Sumitomo Riko Company Limited have developed a new experimental nursing care robot, ROBEAR, which is capable of performing tasks such as lifting a patient ...