Japanese baby-bot with runny nose teaches parenting skills
Japan may have one of the lowest birthrates in the world, but researchers at a Japanese university are hoping that a new bionic baby will help change all of that.The robotic infant is known as Yotaro and was developed by the robotics and behavior sciences laboratory of Tokyo's University of Tsukuba to simulate the behavior of a real human child, creator Hiroki Kunimura told the AFP on Wednesday, March 10, 2010.Kunimura calls Yotaro "a robot with which you can experience physical contact just like with a real baby and reproduce the same feelings." It comes complete with a touch-sensitive face, artificial tear ducts that release warm water when the robot is "crying" and a built-in speaker that can replicate the giggles of a happy baby.
Japanese baby-bot with runny nose teaches parenting skills
It giggles and wiggles its feet when you shake its rattle, but will get cranky and cry from too much tickling: Meet Yotaro, a Japanese robot programmed to be as fickle as a real baby.
Wed 10 Mar 10 from The Independent
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