Robotics is evolving at an enormous rate and just by looking at the way it is progressing, we may soon have robots that can think and analyse like human beings. Iowa State University has gone a step closer to this feat and has been working on the humanoid robot which would learn just like a child would.

It can perform procedural learning just like a child can and it comes with two large manipulators which double up as hands. The face is also capable of many expressions. The robot will be taught about its environment just like a child is taught. The robot is programmed to respond to certain kinds of sounds and the development is ongoing and hence we can expect a robot that would learn just like a child would.

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Whoever said that fiction is stranger than life is so much mistaken because this is one creation that will convince you that real life is, and will always be, the strangest of all. Humans, crazed with the idea of becoming immortal turn towards science once again in the hope of living forever.

When it comes to strange things, perhaps the creation of the strangest comes from the Japanese. Their reptile monsters are only second to their creation of weirdly life-like robots and this time they take the words ‘life-like’ further than possible. Oboe is a robot made with the intention of carrying human thoughts. All of you Harry Potter fans thinking of the Penseive would be most disappointed to know that this is nothing of that sort. The Oboe was designed by Arnaud Deloustal as a robot that would ‘hang-out’ with the elderly and carry memories of them. Oboe would store within it all the information that is to be gained about the certain individual.

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For those who believe that technology and robotics will make their life a lot easier than at any time in the past, this is probably something that would not really surprise you. But for those conspiracy-theory experts who believe that one day all the robots will turn on us and try and eliminate us from the face of the earth (ala Terminator), this is another sign towards the impending doom. Korean company Yujin Robot has been showing off a coffee barista robot that delivers your coffee with precision and with complete politeness.
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