A team of scientists led by Michio Kawai of the University of Tokyo and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University created a rather disconcerting smiling robot face that was ...
Mitsuru Kawai is overseeing a return to the old ways at Toyota factories throughout Japan. Having spent 50 years at the Japanese automaker, Kawai remembers when manual skills were prized at the ...
(credit: Shoji Takeuchi, Haruka Oda, Minghao Nie, Michio Kawai, via Cell Press) Further, they plan on enhancing robots’ awareness and interaction abilities by embedding sensors for better ...