The newest employee at a Tokyo 7-Eleven works through the night without a single break. It silently stocks drinks and other ...

Japan begins robot trials in 7-Eleven amid massive worker shortage - Autonomous machines will stack shelves and clean windows ...

Facing a severe labour shortage, Japan has turned to automation in convenience stores by launching a revolutionary trial of ...

Japan's biggest convenience store chain has introduced robots on a trial basis in a bid to tackle labor shortages and ...

Seven-Eleven Japan Co. on Tuesday introduced worker robots to one of its convenience stores in Tokyo, with the trial part of ...

Japan's delivery robot market is still at its initial stage of development and the costs for producing the machines and their operation afterward are still high. Abstract The aging of Japanese society ...

An attempt to use an extendable robot to remove a fragment of melted fuel from a wrecked reactor at Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was suspended Thursday due to a technical ...

The Japanese automotive industry installed a total of about 13,000 industrial robots in 2024. This is an 11% increase compared to the previous year and the highest level recorded since 2020. These are ...