| The future is coming forth much faster than | | | | lungs."Soon we will have new robotic android |
| expected with artificial intelligent robotic | | | | assistants that we will barely be able to |
| androids. In Japan they are giving American | | | | tell that they are not real and they will |
| research and development companies, | | | | provide companionship for the elderly and |
| universities and institutes a run for their | | | | even in-home care, which is good due to the |
| money. How much further have the Japanese | | | | coming crisis with the shortage of |
| come? Well NASATech News reports | | | | nurses.Imagine robotic android nannies and |
| that;"Researchers at Waseda University | | | | teacher assistants for our children? Great |
| (Tokyo, Japan) have constructed a | | | | for day care centers, referees on the |
| | | | playground and security guards at school. |
| robotic vocalization system that mimics the | | | | These innovations are nearly here and this is |
| articulators used in human | | | | great news for our job shortage issues in the |
| | | | United States.Soon robotic assistants can and |
| speech-making. Called the WT Series, the | | | | will function just like regular humans only |
| system includes robotic | | | | better because they will not have all the |
| | | | negative behavior traits unless we program |
| equivalents of the vocal cavity, tongue, | | | | those into them too. So, perhaps we have a |
| vocal chords, cheeks, lips, | | | | lot to look forward too in the near future. |
| | | | Consider all this in 2006."Lance Winslow" - |
| teeth, soft palate, nasal cavity, nose, and | | | | Online Think Tank forum board. |