Better known for producing the world's most advanced exoskeletons, Japan's Cyberdyne is expanding its portfolio with a new as-yet-unnamed industrial cleaning robot for very large areas such as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We joke a lot about the “inevitable” robot apocalypse, but aside from a few scary developments it seems like humanity is much more ...

I have been a fan of Japan-based Cyberdyne‘s robot suit HAL since I saw it for the first time in action about 6 years during a demo event in Tokyo. In a nutshell, HAL can help make paralyzed persons ...

If the name Cyberdyne doesn't immediately ring a bell, its HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) robotic suit sure will. Here at CEATEC, we bumped into these folks who kindly offered to strap us onto their ...

This week Cyberdyne unveiled a robotic exoskeleton called HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) that allows its wearer to carry superhuman loads while shielding them from radiation. With the Fukushima nuclear ...

Remember the company from the Terminator franchise called Cyberdyne Systems? The same company that builds lethal robots and develops Skynet, the network of computers that eventually tries to destroy ...

Cyberdyne isn’t just the company responsible for Skynet in the Terminator films. It’s also a real R&D firm in — where else? — Japan. Yoshiyuki Sankai from the University of Tsukuba founded the company ...

Cyberdyne Inc. and Omron Corp. said Wednesday they will join forces in making and marketing robots, combining Cyberdyne's power limb technology with Omron's expertise in sensors and automation. "We ...

While we're still a ways away from a proper Aliens-esque Power Loader, our enhanced exo-suit future is already upon us. The HAL (that's Hybrid Assistive Limb, not the murderous space AI) from medical ...

A Japanese company with one of the most ominous corporate names in movie lore just went public. Shares in Cyberdyne Inc. more than doubled in price on their first day of trading on the Tokyo Stock ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An hour’s drive east of Tokyo, in a cavernous new building in Tsukuba Science City, a company called Cyberdyne ...