Robo-Fair Reveals Bots Can Cry, Feel And Play!

There is no doubt about it: Japanese are addicted to robots! They're so hooked on robotry they could actually use one bot for just about every need they have.

In this regard, Reuters reports on the amazing International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, which is opening today. The event is definitely going to prove the bots' supremacy in some areas, such as education. The sliding population, the increased level of high tech they use, as well as the numerous needs the androids can actually fulfill, has led to Japan's prior need to develop all sorts of artificial mechanisms to adapt to their own lifestyle.

Reuters also writes about the employees of Yamazaki Co., a Japanese educational goods company, who were busy with something hard to believe it can actually happen earlier than 2100 and beyond Asimov's literature. They actually took care of four baby robots who "cried and burped".

The bots were serious stuff, they cost about 620 bucks each and have been imported straight from the U.S. with the precise mission to teach students and future parents how to take care of children. "Opportunities to see kids in society are decreasing. The way students would touch a baby would be completely different once they have looked, touched, and experienced this 'baby'," Kaoru Nukui of Yamazaki told Reuters.

Apart from the crying little bots, the exhibition has also displayed a long-haired, fair-skinned female android on a dentist chair. Named Simroid, the $635,000 cute android simulator was developed as a dummy patient for Japanese dental students.

According to the same news agency, Simroid blinked when a student pressed her teeth too hard with a tool and her chest rose and fell as if she was breathing. Moreover, the robot even said "That's painful!" Now that's a spooky image!

This fair can be considered the most important in the robotic industry, as it is expected to draw around 100,000 bot-lovers in only four days.

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