SAN FRANCISCO --Pretty soon, a robot named Wakamaru may become a fixture in the homes of elderly Japanese who have no one else to look after them. The robot, which recently wheeled around to greet ...

Things didn't turn out so well for Mitsubishi's cute little Wakamaru house bot, which the company introduced in 2005. Initially expecting to sell 100 of the $14k+ bots, Mitsubishi received only a few ...

Yoshiyuki Ishihara doesn't look much like a character from a science fiction novel. But the 35-year-old and his wife Miho can claim to be the first to share their apartment with a home robot: a ...

We took a trip down to Uniqlo to see how the American invasion of their Wakamaru shopping robot was faring. Not so well. Bewildered by the bustling crowd scurrying around against booming techno music, ...

This sales-bot doesn’t have genes, but sure knows its denim! Meet “wakamaru,” your new robot shopping assistant at SoHo’s UNIQLO, who’ll be helping customers until the end of this month. The robot ...

Domestic robots that can speak, recognise their owners' faces and understand spoken instructions will soon be bustling around homes all over the world. Manufacturers in Japan are preparing to launch a ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlJgmWTQSk8&hl=en&fs=1] Toshiyuki Kita’s Wakamaru robot has been around for more than three years and the soon-to-be robot ...

Previous to our face to face interaction, we believed Wakamaru to be male, since according to the robot's "About" page it was named after "Ushiwakamaru, a young boy who later grew up to become known ...

No longer a problem. Just wheel in Wakamaru. She may not look entirely as you would expect, with a shiny face of canary yellow and metallic arms a delicate shade of silver. But this smooth-talking ...