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Japanese have created the world's first news-reading robots. They really look and act like human . The newscaster even sounded human and had a of humour. The scientists showed two robots to reporters in Tokyo. One of them is called "Kodomoroid". This word joins the Japanese for , "kodomo," with the English word "android". The other robot is called "Otonoaroid" – the of the Japanese word for adult with "android". The first of news read by the robots were on an earthquake in Tokyo and a raid by the FBI. The robots' creator is a robotics professor, Hiroshi Ishiguro. He did not say when robots would read the news for .

Robots are big in Japan. Many companies spend a lot of money on and development to make robots better and . The Japanese have a very image of robots. They think they are both helpful and . In the West, people think of them as a little . They worry that robots will take over the world one day and control us. Professor Ishiguro told that robots are very important. He said: "We will have more and more robots in our lives in the ." He added that robots are now not so expensive and so are increasingly becoming a part of life in Japan: "Robots are now becoming - no different from owning a laptop," he said.

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