A humanoid robot named “Kirobo” has had a chat with a Japanese astronaut on the International Space Station. The robot, also from Japan, is designed to process questions and construct answers from its ...

Do you remember in the movie “Toy Story,” when puffed-up superhero Buzz Lightyear finds out what he really is? “I’m not a Space Ranger,” he tells Woody sadly. “I’m just a toy. A stupid little ...

A Japanese company is planning to send some robotic personality to the International Space Station, in the hopes of providing at least one astronaut with some much-needed entertainment. Here’s the ...

Japanese-built Kirobo, which measures at just over a foot tall and looks something like a child's toy, will act as a shipboard companion to future... HAL 9000 he's not. But Kirobo, the first-ever ...