Stareastasia Weird News » Weird Babies http://weird.stareastasia.com Weird news and odd stuff from from China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:17:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Japan robot baby http://weird.stareastasia.com/2010/06/japan-robot-baby/ http://weird.stareastasia.com/2010/06/japan-robot-baby/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:41:49 +0000 Webmaster http://weird.stareastasia.com/?p=420 Meet Noby, a 71 cm tall and 7.9 kg weigh robot which has two cameras and two microphones on its head and is also equipped with some 600 touch sensors in the artificial skin of his body.

Noby Japan robot baby

Noby is designed by Tokyo University to simulate the behaviour and development of a 9-month-old infant in an effort to better understand how humans grow up.

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Japanese crying contest

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