Japan Looks to a Robot Future

March 1st, 2008 By HIROKO TABUCHI, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust.

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• Wicked - Mar 04, 2008
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  praise to robotics. How about self-replicating robots for those interstellar missions?
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