Tokyo University

Combining lab-grown muscle tissue with a series of flexible mechanical joints has led to the development of an artificial hand that can grip and make gestures. The breakthrough shows the way forward for a new kind of robotics.

GPS doesn’t work as well inside buildings, underground or underwater. Now engineers in Japan have developed and tested an alternative technology that uses cosmic rays to track movement beneath a building with precision of a few meters.

It was just this May that we heard about Poimo, an experimental inflatable electric scooter developed at Tokyo University. Well, its designers have now unveiled a custom-fit version that would be made for each user, based on photos that they provide.

We've seen our share of portable ebikes, but this adorable little cutie takes things to the next level. Poimo (POrtable and Inflatable MObility) is an inflatable short-range ebike that fits in a small backpack when you're not riding it.

Researchers at the Yamanaka Laboratory at University of Tokyo have been investigating robot-human interaction since 2007 by adding different kinds of biological behavior to a series of robotic sculptures. This year almost all of these sculptures were gathered together for the Bio-likeness exhibition

The world's most anatomically accurate robot has been presented by a team at Tokyo University's JSK Lab.