Japanese scientists develop humanoid to keep astronauts company

The Telegraph ^ | 12/2/12 | Julian Ryall

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Given their insularity, demographic meltdown and debt, in 100 years Japan will be one giant robot factory run by robots. When a human being says, “Japanese”, they’ll mean our word “robot”.

Stories of flesh and blood Japanese will fall into myth and their samurai stories will be cast into the fog of lost knowledge.