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Japanese robotics professor Hiroshi Ishiguro and a team of scientists have unveiled the world’s first android newsreaders.

On Tuesday this week, two lifelke robots, ‘kodomoroid®’ (resembling a multilingual human child) and ‘otonaroid®’ ((resembling an adult female, since hired as a communicator by the national museum of emerging science and communication) delivered a first report – the story of an earthquake and an FBI raid.

MORE: Japan reveals world’s first android newscaster (AFP)

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