Only in Japan - the land of Astro Boy and Asimo - a Japanese engineer has developed a fully functioning real transformer robot. Conceived and built by engineer and confessed robot fanatic Kenji Ishida ...

If you grew up loving the Transformers franchise, you may have dreamed of the day technology would bring your favourite robots to life. Now, a Japanese engineering company has turned that childhood ...

Gundam may rule Mecha anime, but being purely accessible for international audiences is something that Optimus Prime and the ...

A robot can now travel through the human body to cure diseases. Scientists have created a Transformers-style robot inspired by the Japanese paper-folding art of origami. The shape-shifting device is ...

The 3.7-metre (12.1-feet)-tall two seater robot 'J-deite RIDE' can transform into a sports car in a process that takes about a minute. It can walk at 100 metres per hour (0.06 mph) or run on its four ...

Japanese engineers have unveiled a robot that transforms into a car that can actually carry people on board, in what they said was the first such accomplishment in the history of robots. The 3.7-metre ...