Interesting things being built in Japan

Can you teach a robot not to squash a shrimp?

A Hokkaido University startup is trying to teach robots not just where to move, but how hard to push, hold and squeeze. Industrial robots are very good at doing the same thing over and over again. Give one a precisely positioned metal component and a carefully programmed movement, and it

Japan has a startup trying to burn nuclear waste

Lead accel wants to use a particle accelerator and liquid metal to tackle some of nuclear power’s longest-lived waste. The physics is decades old. The attempt to turn it into a small commercial system is not. One of the radioactive elements found in nuclear waste, neptunium-237, has