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Craving machine companionship? Japan's robot hotel is for you

When you check into Japan's newest hotel, a mechanized velociraptor in a bellhop cap greets you at the front desk.
Super-stretchable smart fabrics could enable new wearables

Engineers in Japan are making conductive inks that can be stretched to the extreme, adding to research on smart fabrics by Google, NTT and other groups in one sign of the possible future direction of wearables.
Skip the waiter and order with this Bluetooth mat

If you hate waiting for restaurant servers and can't abide mistakes in your order, there's an app -- and a mat -- for that.
Researchers hack Sony headset to simulate autism

Japanese researchers want to show people what it's like to have autism by using a headset that distorts imagery of people nearby.
Fukushima disaster spurs Japan to mass-produce its own drones

Japan has robot chops aplenty. Honda has the world's most sophisticated humanoid robot, Japanese industrial robot makers are among the best, and the country's space agency landed a robot probe on a speeding asteroid and returned samples to Earth.

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