The androids are coming

November 01, 2006

Japanese developers hope these human looking androids will replace receptionists and even television anchor people. A robotics laboratory at Osaka University unveiled the latest versions of its androids - an adult female and a little girl - during a robot technology symposium in Tokyo. Each equipped with about 50 sensors and a number of motors that allow them to move in a human-like manner. They blink, fluttering their eye lids, and even breathe with compressed air pumped into their bodies.