Japan is flourishing with all the successes in the field of robotics with multi-functional as well as humanoid robots. The Japanese domestic market has already started using these innovative and coolest robots across all industries to boost productivity and enhance customer engagement. Robotics in Japan has successfully left the world in awe. Let's explore some of the top coolest robots in Japan that have impressed the global tech market in these few years. Short for "Child-Robot with Biometric Body", it has mesmerized the world with its ability to respond to sounds and react by wiggling and changing facial expressions.

The company's previous demo had involved marching a human out in a robot-like bodysuit, so when Optimus walked slowly around the stage, it was met with delight from the cheering crowd. Despite the show's futuristic framing, robotics experts were mostly underwhelmed by the reveal. Optimus' clunky attempts at something like a dance seemed less advanced than other humanoid robots, such as Honda's ASIMO, which played soccer with former President Barack Obama back in 2014. Tesla engineers boasted that Optimus' hand had as many as 11 degrees of freedom (that's to say, all the ways in which robotic parts can bend). In comparison, a robotic hand designed by a Japanese engineer back in 1963 had 27. What is it about Optimus that makes us feel threatened?

The company's previous demo had involved marching a human out in a robot-like body suit, so when Optimus walked slowly around the stage, it was met with delight from the cheering crowd. Despite the show's futuristic framing, robotics experts were mostly underwhelmed by the reveal. Optimus' clunky attempts at something like a dance seemed less advanced than other humanoid robots, such as Honda's Asimo, which played soccer with former President Barack Obama back in 2014. Tesla engineers boasted that Optimus' hand had as many as 11 degrees of freedom (that's to say, all the ways in which robotic parts can bend). In comparison, a robotic hand designed by a Japanese engineer back in 1963 had 27. What is it about Optimus that makes us feel threatened?

Robots in Japan are found on factory floors carrying out simple tasks or delivering food to restaurant patrons but researchers have now unveiled a robot capable of executing the delicate task of peeling a banana without squashing the fruit inside. While the dual-armed machine is only successful 57% of the time, banana peeling points to a future where machines undertake more subtle operations than moving metal parts or delivering coffee. Video from researchers at the University of Tokyo showed the robot pick up and peel a banana with both hands in about three minutes. Researchers Heecheol Kim, Yoshiyuki Ohmura and Yasuo Kuniyoshi trained the robot using a "deep imitation learning" process where they demonstrated the banana-peeling action hundreds of times to produce sufficient data for the robot to learn the actions and replicate it. In this case, the banana reached its success rate after more than 13 hours of training.

Researchers from the University of Washington have developed tiny backpacks for beetles so they can film their surroundings. Miniature cameras, which stream to a linked smartphone, gives researchers insights into the lives of the creatures. It has a range of 120 meters, a little longer than a football pitch. "We have created a low-power, low-weight, wireless camera system that can capture a first-person view of what's happening from an actual live insect or create vision for small robots," said Shyam Gollakota, UW associate professor of Computer Science & Engineering and senior author of the study published based on these results. "Vision is so important for communication and for navigation, but it's extremely challenging to do it at such a small scale. As a result, prior to our work, wireless vision has not been possible for small robots or insects."

SciTech Europa delves into the world of AI, defining what it means, giving examples of the real-life applications, and discussing the ethical questions it prompts. The computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term Artificial Intelligence in 1956, and defines the field of artificial intelligence as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines." As well as the term for the scientific discipline, artificial intelligence refers to the intelligence of a machine, program, or system, in contrast to that of human intelligence. Alessandro Annoni, the head of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, spoke at the Science Meets Parliaments conference at the European Parliament, Brussels in February 2019. He said: "Artificial intelligence should not be considered a simple technology…it is a collection of technologies. It is a new paradigm that is aiming to give more power to the machine. It's a technology that will replace humans in some cases."

The'Lovot' could be the one robot humans don't need to be afraid of. A fuzzy, wide-eyed companion, the Lovot was designed simply to follow its owners around, give plenty of hugs and recognize their face. Japanese startup GrooveX first unveiled the Lovot in December and is now showing off the device at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. They say the Lovot, which gets its name by combining the words love and robot, exists to'make you truly happy.' The Lovot, which gets its name by combining the words love and robot, exists to'make you truly happy.'

A Japanese robot that can pick up and drill in a drywall all by itself could provide a glimpse into the future of construction. The smart robot, HRP-5P, uses object detection and motion planning to perform its construction tasks – albeit very slowly. It can use small hooks to grab the board, carry it across the room and then drill it in the desired spot. Robotics are common in manufacturing sites, such as auto plants, but those machines are stationery and carrying out the same task over and over, often in sterile and enclosed environments. Robots used in construction sites have to move around.

Erica, a 23-year-old Japanese robot, is all set to make her debut as a news anchor in April 2018. The robot, which looks remarkably like a young woman, was created by Hiroshi Ishiguro, the director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University, in 2014. In a documentary conducted by the Guardian on Erica in December, Ishiguro described his creation as "the most beautiful and most human-like autonomous android in this world." However, there is still a long way to go before Erica can move and walk around like a human. At the moment, the robot's arms and legs are not functional.

Do you even lift, bro-bot? A team of Japanese engineers has designed robots that can perform push-ups, do crunches, stretch and even sweat while doing so. The robots Kengoro and Kenshiro, described in the journal Science Robotics, can perform remarkably human-like movements -- and could serve as a model to help scientists design better crash dummies and prosthetic limbs and to better understand the moving human body's mysterious inner workings. Researchers have been developing humanoid robots for years, each becoming more advanced than the last -- but there are still a number of kinks to work out, the study authors wrote. "A limitation of conventional humanoids is that they have been designed on the basis of the theories of conventional engineering, mechanics, electronics and informatics," the study authors pointed out.