Robot gets gig as newscaster for Japanese television show

An eerily human-looking robot will be taking over Japanese airwaves this spring as a TV presenter, according to a report. Erica, a lifelike bot created in 2014 by Hiroshi Ishiguro, the director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University, will be making her debut as a newscaster in April, the Wall Street Journal reported....

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