Beauty Robot
(Reuter)
Updated: 2006-08-07 20:01
Robot designers assemble "Rong Cheng", a newly-created robot, at the
Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing August 7,
2006. Rong Cheng, dubbed as the first Chinese "beauty" robot, is able to respond
to some 1,000 Chinese words. She can dance, bow and greet people in the Sichuan
dialect as she is destined for the Sichuan Science Museum to serve as a
receptionist. The robot costs about 300,000 yuan (US$37,500) to make, according
to Xinhua News. [Reuters]
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