TOKYO – Japan has a new 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 ...

On Thursday, SoftBank Robotics opened the Pepper PARLOR, a cafe where three different types of robots work alongside human staff to serve and entertain customers. "[The] aim is to create a space where ...

Japan is running out of workers. With an unemployment rate of just 2.5 per cent, a rapidly ageing population and declining birth rate, finding enough people to fill roles as taxi drivers, baristas and ...

Tokyo: Japan, in its spirit of being futuristic in nature, has a unique café where robot waiters are operated remotely by people with severe physical disabilities. This novel venture, known as the ...

A café partially staffed by robots recently opened in downtown Tokyo, giving guests the opportunity to live out a sci-fi fantasy. It also provides jobs to those with physical limitations or ...

Every Sunday, Tokyo's Penguin Café opens an hour early to host an unusual group of visitors: robot dogs and their owners. The weekly event — named "Aibo World" after Sony's popular line of robot dogs ...

Japan already has a hotel staffed by robots, so why not a cafe? Opening this week in Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya district, tech giant SoftBank is opening a new eatery staffed by lots of its Pepper robots ...