(AFP/File) – An engineering student displays Yotaro, a baby robot, at a laboratory in Tsukuba University, Japan. Yotaro changes its facial expressions and moves its arms and legs when different parts of its face and body are touched.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)
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Engineering students at Japan's Tsukuba University have …
(AFP) – Engineering students at Japan's Tsukuba University have developed a robot that mimics a real baby and its fickle moods in the hope it may teach young people the pleasures of parenting amid a demographic crisis in with the country's population rapidly ageing. Duration: 00:22(AFP)
An engineering student soothes Yotaro, a robot which emulates …
(AFP/File) – An engineering student soothes Yotaro, a robot which emulates a real baby at Tsukuba University in Japan. Yotaro's face, made of soft translucent silicon with a rosy hue, is backlit by a projector connected to a computer to simulate crying, sneezing, sleeping and smiling, while a speaker can let out bursts of baby giggles.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)
A Russian traffic policeman stops a car in the Siberian village …
(AFP/File) – A Russian traffic policeman stops a car in the Siberian village of Oktyabrskoye in 2005. A Siberian traffic policeman was arrested for taking a 2,000-ruble (67-dollar) bribe and then trying to conceal his crime by eating the money, investigators said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Yuri Tutov)
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel gives an address in …
(AFP/Getty Images/File) – White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel gives an address in Washington, DC in 2009. The legend of Emanuel, revered as a master of the US capital's dark arts by allies and foes alike, is being further embroidered by a tour-de-force of score settling by resigning Democratic lawmaker Eric Massa.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win Mcnamee)
US Representative Eric Massa, pictured in 2009, resigned suddenly …
(AFP/Getty Images/File) – US Representative Eric Massa, pictured in 2009, resigned suddenly this week facing harassment allegations from a former male staffer. In his most colorful parting shot, on a radio show on Sunday, he accused the White House chief of staff of cornering him at the locker room of the House of Representatives gym and hammering him for failing to back Obama's budget.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)
A view of a superconducting solenoid magnet at the European …
(AFP/File) – A view of a superconducting solenoid magnet at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva. A German woman fearing that Earth would be sucked into oblivion in a black hole failed on Tuesday in her court attempt to halt the world's most powerful atom-smasher.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)
A kangaroo is seen in an enclosure in the zoo in Dhaka. People …
(AFP/File) – A kangaroo is seen in an enclosure in the zoo in Dhaka. People in a Japanese mountain region have reported a number of kangaroo sightings, and journalists are now trying to stalk the marsupials.(AFP/File/Munir Uz Zaman)
File photo of British competitor Ben Pridmore. Pridmore, who …
(AFP/File) – File photo of British competitor Ben Pridmore. Pridmore, who memorized a randomly shuffled deck of 52 cards in 24 seconds, won last year's world championship. Ronnie White will take part in the next world championships in Guanghou, southern China, in November.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)
Ronnie White, who is able to memorize a deck of cards in 1.5 …
(AFP/Getty Images) – Ronnie White, who is able to memorize a deck of cards in 1.5 minutes, will go on to represent the United States at the World Memory Championships in Guangzhou, China in November.(AFP/Getty Images/Larry W. Smith)
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