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One of the most popular videos in Nico Nico Douga, Japan’s video-sharing community, is this nifty little robot that makes coffee: preparing the cups and dripper, grinding the beans, filtering the coffee and pouring the finished product into a cup.
Hina, a little humanoid robot, is the creation of mujaki (Blog), and is based on Kondo’s [...]

From IT labs to photo grabs, Japanese humanoids will soon be strutting their hard- and soft-wares on the fashion catwalk.
HRP-4C runs on battery-powered motors in her body and face, designed to give her the expressions, gait and attitude of a supermodel.
An interesting humanoid no doubt, but probably has little chance of upstaging Kate Moss and [...]


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    I am occasionally accused (quite rightly!) of spicing up story titles, but today this survey from goo Ranking needs no extra help from me, when they asked what rumours about Japanese girls schools are they curious to find out if they are true or not. Demographics Between the 20th and 22nd of January 2010 1,071 members of [...]