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Writing about travel and culture by writer and journalist Kent Ninomiya.
Well it is the age of electronic books and gadgets but I guess Japan has leapt forward with a robot that can read books. The robot is just the size of any small child and can read from old-fashioned paper-printed books. The robot, named Ninomiya-kun is 1 meter tall, weighs 25 kilos, has aluminum frame and it was developed at Wasada University’s Information Production and Systems Research Center. It was unveiled on June 11th at a robot trade...
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I've seen plenty of devices that turn pages for you, but Ninomiya-kun takes things a step further by actually reading books aloud. Ninomiya-kun can analyze and distinguish about 2,300 Japanese characters from actual paper books. Impressive, but in an age where text-to-speech is already showing up on ebooks, one has to wonder if technology like this is really necessary. Currently we have like what...less than 1% literacy rate among robots...
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Great, it seems that us humans are getting lazier and lazier by the moment - that the Ninomiya-kun robot for instance. This 1-meter-tall, 25-kilogram aluminum-framed robot was developed at Waseda University’s Information, Production and Systems Research Center (IPSRC), and is able to read out stories from a book, letting dad ditch his bedtime story teller role to his kids as the Ninomiya-kun substitutes dad's place so that he can continue...
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Hong Kong - A group of pro-democracy Hong Kong legislators on Tuesday announced plans to try to enter Macau, where academics and politicians have been refused entry after a crackdown on so-called anti-China elements. The six members of the League of ...
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HONG KONG, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government issued here Monday a travel warning to urge Hong Kong residents not to go to Bangkok, citing "rapidly worsening situation" there. Hong Kong residents who are ...
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