Japanese tech giant Panasonic has confirmed a data breach after hackers gained access to its internal network. Panasonic said in a press release dated November 26 that its network was “illegally acc
Google today announced a few updates to Live View, the augmented reality walking directions in its Google Maps app that officially launched last year. Live View uses your phone’s camera and GPS
Google today announced the launch of its Osaka region, its second cloud region in Japan and seventh in Asia Pacific. With this, the company now offers its users a total of 20 regions, all of which fea
China’s Didi Chuxing is fighting fires at home around passenger safety, but overseas the ride-hailing giant has moved into another new market after its taxi-booking service began operations in J
Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro makes robots in Osaka. His latest robot, Ibuki, is one for the nightmare catalog: It’s a robotic 10-year-old boy that can move on little tank treads and has a soft rub
WeWork may be doubling down on Asia, having initially focused its efforts on China, but that isn’t stopping local players from hatching ambitious expansion plans of their own. One of those eying
Days after raising $500 million via a strategic investment from travel giant Booking Holdings, Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing has continued its international push with the launch of a local
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Remember M3-neony and M3-synchy, two humanoid robots from Japan we've shown you <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/20
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Mitsubishi Electric today <a href="http://global.mitsubishielectric.com/news/news_releases/2010/mel0799.pdf"
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Japan has a lot of <a href="http://search.beta.techcrunch.com/query.php?s=japan+robot">different robots</a> so
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A Japanese company called <a href="http://www.ntt-f.co.jp/profile-e/">NTT Facilities</a>, a subsidiary of te