A Robotic Arm with a Sense of Touch
Humans can pick up soft or small objects with ease, but that is not the case for robots, which have difficulty replicating the delicate movements of the human hand. When they do not know how strong a…
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Japanese scientists often win IgNobel prizes
Are banana peels really slippery? Is it possible to extract vanilla fragrance from cow dung? The Ig Nobel Prize is awarded for study into these kinds of amusing topics. Since 1991, the US p…
Love Forever: The Genius of Kusama Yayoi
With major exhibitions opening in Japan and North America this year, 87-year-old Kusama Yayoi, known for her “obsessive” repetition of polka dots and reticulated patterns, is one of the mos…
Japan's "independent" schoolchildren are more supervised than it appear
Indeed, there is nothing unusual in Japan about elementary schoolers traveling to and from school along busy roads, on crowded buses, or aboard rush-hour trains. Compared to other industrialized…