A Japanese company is taking service robotics to a whole new level with a giant, humanoid maintenance robot. With a giant barrel-chested torso mounted on a hydraulic crane arm that can lift it up to ...

WTF?! Japan has a history of creating real-life, Gundam-style giant robots, but they tend to be for entertainment purposes rather than practical applications. However, the country has just started ...

The West Japan Rail Company (or JR West) unveiled its Gundam-style heavy equipment robot for carrying out repairs. The robot takes on the appearance of a humanoid upper body mounted on the end of a ...

With the city of Kobe only months away from the completion of a 59-foot model of the iconic giant robot Tetsujin, Japan is this much closer to realizing its dream of a giant robot national army.

Few vehicles on planet Earth (emphasis on “Earth,” because, you know, spacefaring billionaires might disagree) also qualify as robots, but that’s the case with the Tsubame Industries Archax. Inspired ...