Avride sidewalk bots will start delivering restaurant orders and groceries in central Tokyo this week through a partnership with e-commerce giant Rakuten, the latest commercial expansion by the ...

How the Sidewalk Delivery Bots Work To start, the company will deploy ten autonomous delivery bots in Tokyo, with plans to expand as demand grows. These bots are designed to efficiently navigate ...

Still, Wada said that will not be enough to keep cyclists off sidewalks soon. He said Tokyo is first looking to work with police to crack down on automobiles parked in bicycle lanes so that ...

In a preview of the future, two robots loaded a cardboard box at a pharmacy and started traveling along a sidewalk in Tokyo at a speed of 3 to 4 kph. The automatons were bound for a nursing home ...

In October, still bleary with jet lag, my wife and I wandered down a warren of side streets in Tokyo’s buzzing Shinjuku ... or the tinny hum of Japan’s sidewalk vending machines.