Japan is prepping an unusual robot to explore the Moon — and it's clearly influenced by the country's tech industry. The Byte reports that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has teamed up ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has officially announced that it will be sending a baseball-sized robot transformer to the Moon to explore the lunar soil. JAXA has joined forces with ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced that it’s sending a baseball-sized rover to the Moon some time next year to collect data on lunar dust. And the tiny spherical robot has a ...

If anybody was going to be sending a robot capable of transforming to the moon, it was always going to be Japan, a country that has long had an intriguing fascination with robots, both from a ...

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Remember that moment in the Transformers movie when the kid says that super advanced robots (the Transformers) must be from Japan? He was right. This robot, from what seems to be a Japanese robot ...

An exhibition in Osaka, central Japan, has assembled a hall of fame for Japanese tech products, with hits including Sony’s Walkman and Aibo, an original Tranformer toy, and Paro the baby seal robot on ...

Japanese engineers have unveiled a robot that transforms into a car and can actually carry people. The 12.1-foot J-deite RIDE can transform into a sports car in approximately one minute. Developers ...