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Japan’s biggest bank is preparing to unveil robot employees with a human touch. Nao, a 58-centimetre-tall humanoid developed by the French company Aldebaran Robotics – a subsidiary of the Japanese telecoms and internet giant SoftBank - will begin work on a trial basis at one or two branches of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group from April. Depending on his performance, more robots could appear at other branches in the coming months. Equipped with a camera on his forehead, Nao is programmed to speak 19 languages. He analyses customers’ emotions from their facial expressions and tone of voice, enabling him to greet customers and ask which services they need. The 5.4-kg robot, who was “born” in Paris in 2006, lived up to his billing with a faultless interaction with an English-speaking customer, during a presentation in Tokyo this week. “Hello and welcome,” Nao said. “I can tell you about money exchange, ATMs, opening a bank account, or overseas remittance. Which one would you like?...

Nine people are confirmed dead and rescuers were working Wednesday to pull survivors from the submerged wreck of a TransAsia flight in Taiwan. The flight, which was carrying 53 passengers and five crew, crashed shortly after takeoff from Taipei Songshan Airport ,  en route to the island of Kinmen. A Taipei City government spokesperson said the ATR 72 twin engine turboprop aircraft hit the Nanhu Bridge before crashing into the Keelung River, just before 11 a.m. local time (10 p.m. ET). Taiwan's official news agency CNA reported that the pilot appeared to try to control the plane as it descended, but the aircraft's wings grazed an overpass and hit a taxi. The taxi's occupants were injured but in a stable condition after being taken to hospital. Thirty passengers were still missing, CNA reported, as video from the scene showed rescuers in lifeboats trying to pull survivors from the water and the wreckage. According to the report, 31 passengers aboard the flig...