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  • Aging Japan builds robot to look after elderly

    03/14/2006 10:01:37 PM PST · by martin_fierro · 27 replies · 600+ views
    AFP/Yahoo ^ | Tue Mar 14, 12:34 PM ET
    Aging Japan builds robot to look after elderly Tue Mar 14, 12:34 PM ET TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese-led research team said it had made 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. Government-backed research institute Riken said the 158-centimeter (five-foot) RI-MAN humanoid can already carry a doll weighing 12 kilograms (26 pounds) and could be capable of bearing 70 kilograms within five years. "We're hoping that through future study it will eventually be able to care for elderly people or work in rehabilitation,"...