Mobility

Uber Technologies on Wednesday rolled out a cab-hailing service in Osaka with a smartphone application that connects passengers to a local taxi company.

As the railway industry is confronted with a manpower shortage, a movement is under way to explore ways to adopt robotics and artificial intelligence.

Central Japan Railway Co. has said that its new N700S bullet train model will go into service on the Tokaido Shinkansen line in early July 2020, just before the start of the Tokyo Summer Olympics and Paralympics.

A minibus decorated with All Nippon Airways Co.’s signature blue and white logo motors across the tarmac at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. From the outside, it looks like an ordinary bus, with a person sitting in the driver’s seat — except no one is really operating the vehicle.

At the push of a button, an automated train conducted a test run over Tokyo's iconic Yamanote Line in the wee hours of Monday morning, as operator East Japan Railway demonstrated technology it aims to put into practical use by 2027 as it girds for a shortage of drivers.

Toyota Motor will unveil its newest test vehicle for automated driving at CES, the world's largest consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas next week.

The time needed to travel between Tokyo and Hokkaido on a Shinkansen bullet train is set to fall below four hours.

An experiment with a traveling gas station was launched Monday in northern Hamamatsu, the first trial of its kind in Japan, with a tanker truck directly transferring gasoline to vehicles.

The Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry and the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry have presented a draft roadmap stipulating the start of flying cars’ practical use in the 2020s.

A humanoid robot drove a car in a demonstration event held on Friday in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture. The Toyota city government and a University of Tokyo laboratory have been conducting research on developing a robot capable of driving a car. They developed a new robot named Musashi, which is about 1.6 meters tall and is able to move its fingers and toes. Cameras mounted in its eyes and sensors inside the body enable the robot to recognize its own posture and detect vibrations.