An curved arrow pointing right. Robot Restaurant, located in Tokyo's Shinjuku district, is home to a nightly cabaret show with giant neon robots. Produced by Jenner Deal Follow BI Video ...

Faced with an aging population and labor shortages, Japanese businesses are increasingly relying on service robots to ...

This marks the beginning of robot ... in Tokyo will be limited, similar to Uber Eats' existing self-driving delivery services in North America. Alvin Oo, an executive at Uber Eats Japan, mentioned ...

Japan and Singapore are close ... aren’t new and there are quite a few restaurants around the world that use them. There’s a cafe in Tokyo that uses robot waiters to serve food to customers.

But are robot waiters the future? It’s a question the restaurant industry is increasingly trying to answer. Many think robot waiters are the solution to the industry’s labor shortages.

At one the chain’s Tokyo restaurants, 71-year-old Yasuko Tagawa estimated that half her job now involves some form of robotic assistance. At one point, Tagawa told a robot, “Thanks for your ...