Lunch Break: Yotaro – the Japanese robot baby
To give us a break from the daily grind…
“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. The cuddly baby-bot looks unearthly with a pair of luminous blue eyes and oversized cheeks, but engineering students are hoping it will teach young people the pleasures of parenting as Japan faces a demographic crisis.
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Jul.23, 2010 12:00 pm |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
That is really warped…
Sometime in the 70’s they made a sci-fi B movie where women were banned to get pregnant. So they made robots to simulate babies.
Sad to say, even when we are not in that dystopia, there is the need to supplement women with robots to fill that what is missing…
More info on the dire demographic situation in Japan:
http://allhands-ondeck.blogspot.com/2010/05/japan-is-dying.html