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Why Should We Be Friends?(Business)
Byline: Katie Baker; With Akiko Kashiwagi In Tokyo And B. J. Lee In Seoul.With In Tokyo And In Seoul.
As Japan builds a new generation of robot companions, U.S. firms focus on pragmatics.
Meet Wakamaru and Roomba, two householdhelper robots with very different pedigrees. Wakamaru, from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, is a waist-high bot with a canary yellow exterior and limpid eyes. It can recognize 10,000 Japanese words, identify eight family members by face or voice, remind you to make an appointment or take your meds and, if somebody breaks into your house, send photographs of the intruder to your mobile phone. When the machine rolled off the assembly ...
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