Visitors to Tokyo's Shinjuku ward my find themselves figuratively transported to the uncanny valley, if they take a stroll past Takashimaya department store, that is. Until Valentine's Day, a ...

Incredibly cool or insanely creepy? Yes, that is an actual robot. Japanese researchers have blurred the lines between man and machine with their latest robot, the incredibly realistic Geminoid DK. It ...

We cover a lot of robots here on Fast Company, sometimes exciting tech, sometimes promising for health care, or the future of daily life…and sometimes outright creepy. The latest Japanese android is ...

Her performance could perhaps be described as being a little mechanical. But this new actress treading the boards in Tokyo has a good excuse: she's a robot. Humanoid robot Geminoid F has appeared on ...

It may only be a matter of months before boy bands and teen actresses are replaced by robots - after a talking, singing fem-bot with 65 facial expressions wowed crowds in China. Geminoid F can produce ...

Hiroshi Ishiguro (or his evil android twin, one) is back in business, and nearly four years after his Geminoid HI-1 startled youngsters everywhere, the Geminoid-F has arrived to consternate the ...

The Uncanny Valley is a pit of doom for robots, few that dare enter its depths will ever emerge again. Yet the latest realistic robot from genius Hiroshi Ishiguro is as close to spanning the valley as ...

We always thought the award for “creepiest replicant/cyborg creation” would go to a Japanese model, since they always seem to be coming out with newer (and more erotic) versions of Asian humanoids, ...

The Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University has helped produce what has to be the most convincing android yet to come out of Japan The Geminoid F is the most scarily realistic android to ...

The Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University has helped produce what has to be the most convincing android yet to come out of Japan The Geminoid F is the most scarily realistic android to ...