This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and Japan has taken steps to set up a lunar base there by 2030 with the aid of technology it has both pioneered and perfected: robots. While the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) had been working with other countries such as the United States and Russia to build a new sp...

Fingerprints, faces, voices, and even the color pattern of irises have been used as some form of biometrics to analyze and confirm a person’s unique physical characteristics for identification. And while most of us are familiar with smart phones and laptops that use facial recognition or a fingerprint scanner to make payments or log in, the futu...