A startled Japanese attendee of the robot conference in Tokyo, Japan is startled after robotic baby begins to wail a eerily familiar sound.

But wait?! This isn’t a human child. IT’S A ROBOT!%!@$

A university lab in Tokyo is creating robotic babies to help teach humans how to care for infants.

“While robots are a long way from matching human emotional complexity, the country is perhaps the closest to a future — once the stuff of science fiction — where humans and intelligent robots routinely live side by side and interact socially.”

YES!$@# Let the ROBOTS live!!!!

“For Japan, the robotics revolution is an imperative. With more than a fifth of the population 65 or older, the country is banking on robots to replenish the work force and care for the elderly.

In the past several years, the government has funded a plethora of robotics-related efforts, including some $42 million for the first phase of a humanoid robotics project, and $10 million a year between 2006 and 2010 to develop key robot technologies.”

Where on earth is our funding for robots? hrm… perhaps a move to Japan is in my future.

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