Vendaval
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Feeling the need to combine your techno-gadgetry and real-live-doll fetish? A Japanese company is selling a life sized female robot for approx. $200,000. "Japan Unveils Lifelike Female Robot" Yuri Kageyama, AP "TSUKUBA, Japan (March 16) -- A new walking, talking robot from Japan has a female face that can smile and has trimmed down to 95 pounds to make a debut at a fashion show. But it still hasn't cleared safety standards required to share the catwalk with human models. Developers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, a government-backed organization, said their "cybernetic human," shown Monday, wasn't ready to help with daily chores or work side by side with people — as many hope robots will be able to do in the future. "Technologically, it hasn't reached that level," said Hirohisa Hirukawa, one of the robot's developers. "Even as a fashion model, people in the industry told us she was short and had a rather ordinary figure." For now, the 62.2 inch tall black-haired robot code-named HRP-4C — whose predecessor had weighed 128 pounds — will mainly serve to draw and entertain crowds." http://news.aol.com/article/japanese-robot/383912
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