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Japanese have made the world's first news-reading robots. They look and act like . They also sounded human and had a of humour. The scientists showed two robots to . One of them is called "Kodomoroid". Both names use of the English word "android" with the Japanese words for and adult. The robots read news on an earthquake in Tokyo and a raid by the FBI. The robots' creator is a robotics , Hiroshi Ishiguro. He did not say when robots would read the news on television.

Robots are big in Japan. Many companies spend a lot of on making them. They research ways to make robots better and . Japanese people have a image of robots. They think they are helpful and . Westerners think robots are a little . They worry that robots will take over the and control us. Professor Ishiguro said: "We will have more and more robots in our lives in the future." He added that they are now not so . He said: "Robots are now becoming - no different from owning a laptop".

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