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