When I’m exhausted from work, hugging ‘Moplins’ often lifts my mood,” said Haruka Uto, a woman in her 30s who lives with three ‘companion robots’ in Tokyo, Japan. The two Moplins Uto raises are pet ...

Home-care robots hold significant potential in empowering older adults. Researchers from Chiba University, Japan, assess factors influencing the willingness to use home-care robots among caregivers ...

Japan’s population is the oldest in the world, with a third aged over 65, and one in 10 aged over 80, due to a combination of low fertility rates and high life expectancy. This has a direct effect on ...