Japan has a new, creepy baby robot. Following kid-like humanoids M3-neony/M3-synchy, M3-Kindy and Noby and a bunch of similar robots, we can now give you the Affetto (Italian for “affection”).

the Japanese robotics company behind Hiro-chan, that's all it needs to be able to do to produce a "healing effect" in seniors in nursing homes — an effect apparently amplified by the robot baby ...

Scientists in Japan hope a new infant robot will boost the country’s slowing birth rate. Prospective parents can care for the “Yotaro robotic baby simulator” while deciding whether they want ...

Toyota on Monday unveiled a doe-eyed palm-sized robot, dubbed Kirobo Mini, designed as a synthetic baby companion in Japan, where plummeting birth rates have left many women childless. Toyota's ...

Robots are already taken for granted in Japanese factories, so much so that they are sometimes welcomed on their first day at work with Shinto religious ceremonies. Robots make sushi. Robots plant ...

Japanese technology giant SoftBank ... in a range of roles from caring from the elderly to baby-sitting. "People describe others as being robots because they have no emotions, no heart.

So in order to do so, they build a robot and program it to act like a real baby. Of course, they can only program it ... or else you failed the "test." Maybe more young Japanese people need something ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. Japanese researchers have created a baby robot designed to simulate the behavior and development of a real infant in an effort to better understand how humans ...