As Japan continues to see a rise in dementia patients, the country is actively adopting advanced IT technologies to address ...

Japan is turning to robots and AI tracking tech as dementia cases rise and thousands of older residents go missing each year.

As Japan faces a caregiver shortage, a new survey shows that trust, not age, shapes willingness to adopt home-care robots and ...

The government now considers dementia one of its most urgent policy challenges. The Health Ministry projects that ...

Japan is grappling with a fast-growing dementia crisis as thousands of older people wander from their homes each year. Police data shows that more than 18,000 dementia patients went missing in 2023, ...

KYOTO, Japan — The robot appeared in the hotel hallway as if out of nowhere, R2D2-sized, silently rolling, on a mission of undetermined nature from its robot overlords. A group of us Yankee travelers ...

A nationwide survey in Japan shows divides in acceptance of home-care robots. Surprisingly, openness and trust, rather than age, determine whether people are willing to let robots into their homes and ...

Japanese are more accepting of robots because the native Shinto religion often blurs boundaries between the animate and inanimate, experts say. To the Japanese psyche, the idea of a humanoid robot ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin The global race to develop and deploy humanoid robots is no longer being led by nations but by cities.

The JAMA analysis found that, between 2017 and 2024, the rate of vitamin K shot refusal has risen nearly 80%, with the ...

The survey questioned 1,000 workers in each of five countries: U.S., China, Japan, U.K. and Germany. Across the board, ...