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Aging Japan builds robot to look after elderly
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| Tue Mar 14, 12:34 PM ET
Posted on 03/14/2006 10:01:37 PM PST by martin_fierro
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Hello Kitty meets Hello Robot:
The RI-MAN robot carries a life-sized doll at the Riken laboratory in Nagoya, central Japan. The RI-MAN is a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country's growing number of elderly.(AFP/JIJI PRESS)
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To: martin_fierro
Why would we want them, after all, we have to many government employees now
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posted on
03/14/2006 10:08:20 PM PST
by
bybybill
(If the Rats win, we are doomed)
To: martin_fierro
Can that thing use nunchucks?
To: martin_fierro
Robbie ....there is garbage floating in the jacuzzi...
I told you to put it in the trash compactor....by the way
where is grandma?...
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posted on
03/14/2006 10:19:31 PM PST
by
joesnuffy
(A camel once bit our sister..but we knew just what to do...we gathered rocks and squashed her!)
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posted on
03/14/2006 10:20:35 PM PST
by
AntiGuv
To: martin_fierro
If I were a bedridden 95-year-old and that thing came for me, I'd think I was being abducted by aliens.
To: KittyKares
Hell, I'd think that *now*.
To: martin_fierro
This robot nurse idea may sound good, but don't buy the cheap models.
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posted on
03/14/2006 10:48:44 PM PST
by
xJones
To: martin_fierro
(< |:)~)
Is that a Muhammad smiley face?
To: martin_fierro
Ok, so what, exactly, are the "eight smells" it needs to distinguish around old people?
Fermentation? Decomposition? Poop-oop-a-doop?
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posted on
03/14/2006 10:57:30 PM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government "job" attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: onedoug
To: martin_fierro
"In the future, we would like to develop a capacity to detect a human's health condition through his breath," Mukai said. I've met people whose breath indicates they've been dead for a month.
"So Robbie, he gets a whiff of this guy and goes for his shovel . . . . . "
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posted on
03/14/2006 11:01:40 PM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government "job" attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: Hank Rearden
Tuesday is soylent yellow day.
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posted on
03/14/2006 11:07:46 PM PST
by
afnamvet
To: xJones
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posted on
03/14/2006 11:25:28 PM PST
by
AntiGuv
To: martin_fierro
Ushering in the end of the traditional Japanese extended family!
If my kids can't take care of me, I'm checking out!
To: martin_fierro
I like the hat
whens the orgasmatron coming out?
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posted on
03/15/2006 1:07:21 AM PST
by
wildcatf4f3
(Islam Schmislam blahblahblah, enough already!)
To: martin_fierro
That looks like 'Rosie' the maid from the old Jetsons cartoons!
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posted on
03/15/2006 1:33:12 AM PST
by
CowboyJay
(Rough Riders! Tancredo '08)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
03/15/2006 1:54:08 AM PST
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(A fool and his money are soon parted. Democrats love fools.)
To: Hank Rearden
The only way family members will take care of you in old age is if they smell money!
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posted on
03/15/2006 3:03:34 AM PST
by
Sabatier
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