This would be grate for all the teachers and students whom are sick or badly hurt

Anthony why don't you stick to science and technology reporting and leave out the racist humour that reveals your deep discomfort with cutting edge research.

Doe anyone recognize the simularities between this and the old B & W movie "Metropolis"?

That's just creepy! I am too animated in class for a robot to replace me. Thank God!

Great, next we can start replacing the homeless with robots. A solution to poverty.

does any one else think maybe we are trying to be replaced. IF youve ever seen ghost in the shell then this seems awfully famlair (it even takes place in Japan). It starts with one robot then two then a whole frekin country, until almost the whole world is taken over. Humanity as we know it could be over!!!!!AWWW!!!

Technically this does not sound like a robot, it might be just enough more than a puppet to be an android. The inventor is also not a "Mad Scientist", whatever that is. Can't Sci-Fi afford a real science writer, why did they think a humor columnist could cover technical news items?

OMG.... Lets hope that nobody else catches on to "Robo Me." I'd hate to see fifty million "Robo Me" idiots walking the streets doing whatever their 'masters' want them to!! HOW SCARY!! Can you just imagine? O wait,... I don't want to!!!

OMG.... Lets hope that nobody else catches on to "Robo Me." I'd hate to see fifty million "Robo Me" idiots walking the streets doing whatever their 'masters' want them to!! HOW SCARY!! Can you just imagine? O wait,... I don't want to!!!

I WOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT MY JOB!

Wow this would be the most wanted birthday present for teenagers. That way they can go out and party and do other bad stuff while their copy sits around looking cranky about being locked up. Same for dropouts. I think this is one more example of how lazy humanity has become. We have to make robots intelligent enough to get up and get us things because were too lazy to get off our bums and do it ourselves. Wow.

I like it! I like it a lot. I want one. Before reading the part about the lip-syncing i thought perhaps he just let it sit there and imitate him, because in his job he didn't usually do anything anyway, or something.

I'm intrigued. Anyone know where we can see video of this thing in action? I'd love to have one that I could use to answer the door when Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons or door-to-door salesfolk come calling!

Let's see, it took how many years to get from the first PC to today's super-computers...a "living" version of Data (ST:TNG) may not be that far behind.

I am waiting for a "robot" of Pamela Anderson, now that's replacement!!

This was a truly sad news story. The writer obviously hasn't done any homework on why someone might actually want to have a doubled controlled remotely, apart from the reason already reported in the popular media: to have it enable you to participate in a meeting or teach a class when you are somewhere else. The writer might actually bother to read some of the papers written by Ishiguro and colleagues about android science next time.

These kind of devices enable psychologists and neuroscientists to explore many issues concerning human interaction. What is it that creates a sense of human presence? Just a person's appearance or also their behaviour? If the gestures and facial expressions of the android were teleoperated by someone other than Professor Ishiguro, could you tell the difference?

The writer seems to like to label someone "mad" because that person dares to do something nobody has done before. In that sense, all scientific progress, and science fiction, which has been parasitic on that progress, are mad. (After all, cavemen wouldn't have dreamt about transporters and warp drive. Without science there is no science fiction. And the imagination of science fiction writers can feed technological advancement.)

There is a saying, "Lead, follow, or get the hell out of my way." Small-minded people like this writer should get the hell out of the way of big-minded, clever, ambitious people like Professor Ishiguro.

Shame on the United States that these kinds of advancements are happening in Asia and especially Japan, and not in the USA. The USA won the space race, but in robotics, the USA seems to be a distant second (third? fourth?) to Japan. There seems to be a definite lack of imagination on the part people who control science and engineering funding in the USA. Perhaps we all have something to learn from Japan in that respect.

So while the Japanese are figuring out how to take care of future problems with technology ("Who's going to take care of our aging population?"), the USA can speculate on the implications of technologies it doesn't even have to enjoy. Criticism from underachievers sound like "sour grapes" to me.

Geez. Everyone's so angry at this guy for just injecting some humour into the blog. If you're SO interested in the whole robot thing, then do the research on it. This guy told you about, go find out more if you're that interested. Don't hark on him for having a little fun while doing it rather than giving you a big long boring essay on the nitty gritty of it. Sheesh.

I always thought that engineering and scentist always try finding a lazy way out of work by creating new inventions. From that said, Hiroshi Ishiguro is the laziest person I ever heard of. I'm starting to question my carrer:S .. thats just too much.. robots .. what are we going to do then, sit at home and get fat?

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