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» I do not understand. Why are they doing this - and (shudder) this? The child robot is programmed to watch the people around it and cluster their facial expressions into basic categories, such as happiness and sadness.

In coming decades, Asada expects science will come up with a "robo species" that has learning abilities somewhere between those of a human and other primate species such as the chimpanzee.

Perfect. (via gm. thanks, jjg!)