Japanese robot likes sushi, fears president

University research team creates Kansei, a robot whose facial expressions are triggered by spoken keywords.

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[Schratboy]

Fears president

Hmmm? Those wily Japanese inventors. Not only have they created a human-like robot they can choose its political affiliation. I think it has something to do with reducing the RAM by 90%.

[gerhard_schroeder]

Its called a "puppet"...

I really don't see the value in training a robot to echo the sentiment of a bunch of whiney college kids.

[lingsun]

It's another robot simulator.

It's not really a robot. It's a machine programmed to simulate a robot. It's not self-aware. It doesn't really think.

[dishsoap1]

Bashing the President is not cool.

This could of been a cool story about a little robot, but it had to be ruined by somehow bashing our president. No matter your opinion of President Bush, he does deserve Respect, because he is our Commander in Chief. Cnet I'm disappointed.

Tim
dishsoap1

[Sprouty01]

Not impressed

It's all the programming; of course if the programmer likes something he will encode it into his creation. I think those were poor examples of the robots reactions, perhaps a better catch phrase for the story title as well.