Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robots at the cafe are piloted by people working from all over Japan – and the world (Adam Withnall/The Independent) Japan is ...

A café partially staffed by robots recently opened in downtown Tokyo, giving guests the opportunity to live out a sci-fi fantasy. It also provides jobs to those with physical limitations or ...

At a Tokyo cafe, Michio Imai greets a customer, but not in person. He’s hundreds of kilometres away, operating a robot waiter. At a Tokyo cafe, Michio Imai greets a customer, but not in person. He’s ...

Japan is running out of workers. With an unemployment rate of just 2.5 per cent, a rapidly ageing population and declining birth rate, finding enough people to fill roles as taxi drivers, baristas and ...