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All eyes

INTELLIGENT ROBOT: Talk to me, I can understand. PHOTO: AFP

Keiko Uchida, an employee of Japan's Systec Akazawa, chats with a prototype of the eye-shaped communication robot MuuSocia. The robot has been developed to help the elderly. It recognises human faces and voices and also replies to its users. It is expected to hit the market in 2007.

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