1)In Japan, Tsukuba presented a robot that looks like a typical Japanese girl who knows how to walk and talk. Girl-robot, named HRP-4C, was formed to act as a model for fashion shows of clothes. However, while it does not meet safety requirements, to walk the catwalk with their "colleagues" of flesh and blood.

2) Japanese scientists continue to dо humanoid robots. Robots look almost like people, they can cook food and cocktails, they can be dance partners and even communicate - though so far only by touch. So the other day it became known that in the Land of the Rising Sun created humanoid robot that recognizes the taste of wine, cheeses and other snacks.

Personal robot that can recognize the taste of wine and cheeses and other snacks, developed jointly by experts of the Japanese company NEC System Technologies and Mie University.