| The future is coming forth much faster than expected | | | | we will barely be able to tell that they are not real and |
| with artificial intelligent robotic androids. In Japan they | | | | they will provide companionship for the elderly and |
| are giving American research and development | | | | even in-home care, which is good due to the coming |
| companies, universities and institutes a run for their | | | | crisis with the shortage of nurses. |
| money. How much further have the Japanese come? | | | | Imagine robotic android nannies and teacher assistants |
| Well NASATech News reports that; | | | | for our children? Great for day care centers, referees |
| "Researchers at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) | | | | on the playground and security guards at school. |
| have constructed arobotic vocalization system that | | | | These innovations are nearly here and this is great |
| mimics the articulators used in humanspeech-making. | | | | news for our job shortage issues in the United States. |
| Called the WT Series, the system includes | | | | Soon robotic assistants can and will function just like |
| roboticequivalents of the vocal cavity, tongue, vocal | | | | regular humans only better because they will not have |
| chords, cheeks, lips,teeth, soft palate, nasal cavity, nose, | | | | all the negative behavior traits unless we program |
| and lungs." | | | | those into them too. So, perhaps we have a lot to look |
| Soon we will have new robotic android assistants that | | | | forward too in the near future. Consider all this in 2006. |