Truth be told, I wasn't very impressed with what electronics makers showed at the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/ceatec-2011/">CEATEC 2011</a> tech exhibition - especially because a lot of the ne
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Panasonic is prepping an Android 2.2-powered e-book reader/tablet <a href="http://corp.rakuten.co.jp/newsrelea
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<a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/robots">Robot</a> Hanako, the Japanese dental patient simulator <a
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A Japanese company called Global Wave has developed a special film, which can be used to transform any given 2D
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I am aware we have covered the Sense-Roid, a robotic device that lets you hug yourself (don't ask), <a href="http://w
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Do you remember the Toylet, the bizarre <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/12/17/sega-toylets-allow-you-to-game-
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It's not the first "next-generation home" we have covered <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/11/19/so
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Earlier this year, Fujifilm released the Finepix Z700, a camera that's able to detect the faces of cats and d
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Gesture-driven robots are nothing new, but this robot arm, developed at Japan's <a href="http://www.tsukuba.a
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Not too many people know that Panasonic is a quite prolific maker of <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/ro
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We don't usually blog industrial <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/robots/">robots</a> on CrunchGear, b
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Last week, we've shown you a <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/11/26/video-and-picture-gallery-
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A team of researchers at Tokyo-based <a href="http://www.keio.ac.jp/">Keio University</a> came up with a soluti
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In October last year, Sony started teasing a <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/10/02/sony-presents-professional
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By now, we've learned the Japanese have found a number <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/08/25/video-ip
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Japan not only loves the <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/ipad">iPad</a>, it also <a href="http://www.c
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Another cool robot from Japan. This time, it's a huge snake robot, made by the <a href="http://www-robot.mes
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Japan is the first country that was labeled by the United Nations as a super-aged society (over 20% of the po
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This is pretty cool: a robotic wheelchair that automatically follows a human companion without the person sitting in t
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We've shown you <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/05/05/video-robovie-r-ver-3-to-start-supporting-the-e
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