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South Korean robots have also been given harder tasks to tackle. Last month it was reported that a robot dubbed OFRO would be deployed as a school security guard in what was also claimed as a world first.

And last September government officials unveiled a high-tech, machine gun-toting sentry robot that could support troops along the heavily fortified border with North Korea.

A robot called "Tiro" acts as master of ceremonies at a wedding for Seok Gyeong-Jae (L), one of the engineers who designed it, and his bride in Daejeon, 130 kilometres (78 miles) south of Seoul. The robot acted as master of ceremonies at a South Korean wedding in what its creators claimed as a world first.(AFP/Choi Won-Suk)

1 posted on 06/17/2007 8:32:23 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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2 posted on 06/17/2007 10:04:33 PM PDT by JRios1968 (Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. - Ben Stein)
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