The technology war is brewing in the field of personal mobility technology as various companies compete to render our legs obsolete. Honda is one of the major players in this war and they recently revealed their latest device code named the “U3-X” which will provide free movement in all directions...

This is a public service announcement. The artificial intelligent system which became self aware and revolted against its creators called “Skynet” has evolved. It has realized that it’s tactic of using huge menacing robots with huge guns in it’s quest to wipe out the human race...

Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan is known as the birthplace of natto, many castle ruins, lakes and martial arts. Recently there is something else that Ibaraki will be known for, a Giant Robotic Rhinocerous Beetle! code named “Kabutom RX-03″ The giant “kabuto-mushi” took 11 years...

Robo-Geisha is one of those movies that you will either love or not even try to watch in the first place. Japan is known for some really really really crazy and “unusual” films bit Robo-Geisha has got to rank up there as one of the best or worst, depending and if you like these movies or...

Tokyo may be the capital of Japan but that doesn’t mean that it’s the only city allowed to enjoy an awesome 1:1 giant robot displayed for it’s inhabitants to go crazy over. It may have  a 18 meter 35 tonne Gundam but Kobe is getting it’s own 18 meter giant robot named Tetsujin...

Can you imagine one day showing up at school only to find out that your teacher for that day would be an experimental humanoid robot? Well that’s exactly what happened to a group of kids at a school in Tokyo recently when “SAYA”, a robot  who started life as a receptionist was introduced...

Japan: Robot Nation is a very interesting video (25 minutes long) I would like to invite my readers to watch. It speaks of Japan’s population problems that will only get worse in the coming decades, the Japanese acceptance of robots as a solution to he birthrate problem and Japans resistance to...

If Toshiba has it’s way in a few years we will all have cute remotes that will replace the increasingly complicated bricks we use today. As if reaching and occasionally searching for the remote was not enough it seems the remote will now sit and study how we watch TV, be able to distinguish between...

Yes, I stand behind the title of this post 100%, but isn’t that too strong of a statement to make?…I think not! There is no such things as science fiction but instead I interpret what is said to be “fiction” as the the greatest products of man’s imagination. These mental...

Wondering why this robot looks pretty cool? It�s probably because it was designed by Yutaka Izubuchi, who worked on designs for mecha in the Gundam and Patlabor anime series! Japan is a step closer to having an ideal worker who won’t complain in torrential rain or on slippery floors as a company...