Japan
Robotics
Japan’s 60-foot-tall Gundam RX-78 robot takes its first steps
The 18-meter-tall robot has been under construction in the Japanese city of Yokohama for years.
Robotics
Remote-controlled robots stack shelves in Japanese convenience stores
The remote control robot allows one person to work in multiple branches at the same time.
Transportation
SkyDrive conducts first public manned flight test of its SD-03 flying car
It is expected that SkyDrive's flying car can become a real product by 2023.
Invention
Tengujo, the world’s thinnest paper, almost completely transparent
It is used to preserve art at the Vatican and the Louvre.