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As shown in left picture, professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University has build a humanoid robot. It looks more like a human being than the one in the right picture.

‘When a robot looks too much like the real thing, it’s creepy,’ Repliee Q1expo developer Ishiguro said. ‘But if they resemble human beings, it also makes communication easier.’

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