Monkey in a suit gets his own talk show
This is what I suspect the fourth hour of the “Today” show is like.
This is what I suspect the fourth hour of the “Today” show is like.
Doesn’t the headline really say it all?
More robot news from Japan: Students in one Tokyo school are being taught by a robot named — no, not Ms. Roboto — Saya.
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
She — or i t — is multilingual, can organize set tasks for pupils, call the roll and get angry when the kids misbehave. In fact, she can express six basic human emotions: surprise, fear, disgust, anger, sadness and happiness.
The humanoid is the result of 15 years of research by science professor Hiroshi Kobayashi at the University of Tokyo. Kobayashi originally developed Saya to replace office workers�
(The Interwebs say this clip is from a short-lived Japanese sketch-comedy show called “Vermilion Pleasure Night.”)
Check this out: NewYork-based performance artist Momoyo Torimitsu set this battery-powered, crawling robot loose on the streets of Sydney, Australia, to symbolize the crash of Asia’s economy.
Man, they have the best stuff on Japanese TV.
Have a bad case of diarrhea? If not, you will after you watch this next video — and you’ll be able to sing about it.
PopTub Daily’s take: