Emotions
Jul 1 2009, Jeremy Taylor

Filed under: Gadgets, News, Weird, Happy Hour Hero Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Japanese researchers have unveiled a robot that can mimic seven human emotions. Kobian comes equipped with lips, eyebrows and human-looking hands,

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