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There's Always Something New In Japan ![]() Last Thursday, the Tokyo Robot Fair featured various androids. There were a little over 1,000 robots all with unique functions. Play table tennis with robotic pros, witness an android twitch in human ways, and even experience breast feeding, even if you're a man. Employees of Yamakazi Co, an educational goods corporation also participated in the fair, nursing android babies all of which cried and burped. "The way students would touch a baby would be completely different once they have looked touched and experienced this baby," said Kaori Nukui of Yamakazi Co. Strange enough, he proceeded on demonstrating the experience of breast feeding on willing participants by attaching nipple like apparatuses to men's chests. Undoubtedly, it felt extremely weird. Palo, a seal modeled robot was a crowd favourite. Palo was designed to help elderly people avoid loneliness. It can react to touch and can learn its own name. Other life like robotic dummies like Simroid were showcased as practice dentist patients, complaining, twitching and blinking when students pressed too hard on her teeth. So successful was this exhibition that even foreign robot developers were also present, scavenging for a share of Japan's $6.4 billion android market. 2007-11-30 05:27:51 GMT
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Author:Anonymous
Robotic seals? o_O_o
2007-11-30 05:33:02 GMT
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