In the future, we’ll get the news from fair and balanced that will somehow terrify us more than the cable newspeople we have today. These android newscasters are frighteningly lifelike and can interact with humans, read the news and tweets, tell a joke and basically replace the lousy talking heads on TV.
The android newscasters were shown off in Japan at the Android: What is a Human? exhibition in Tokyo. At times, the two robots demoed — Kodomoroid and Otonaroid — look and act so real that they seem like human actors pretending to be a robot.
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