Japan museum unveils advanced android robots

Japan museum unveils advanced android robots

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Mohri (center R), chief executive director of the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, and Hiroshi Ishiguro (center L), a special professor at Osaka University, pose with Kodomoroid (far L), a child android, and Otonaroid (R front), an adult female android, at the museum in Tokyo's Koto Ward on June 24, 2014. The museum describes the robots as the world's most advanced android robots that closely resemble humans.

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