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Japanese scientists have created world's first news-reading robots. They really look and act like human beings. android newscaster even sounded human and had sense of humour. scientists showed two robots to reporters in Tokyo. One of them is called "Kodomoroid". This word joins Japanese for child, "kodomo," with English word "android". other robot is called "Otonoaroid" – combination of Japanese word for adult with "android". first pieces of news read by robots were on imaginary earthquake in Tokyo and raid by the FBI. The robots' creator is leading robotics professor, Hiroshi Ishiguro. He did not say when robots would read news for real.

Robots are big business in Japan. Many companies spend lot of money on research and development to make robots better and better. Japanese have very positive image of robots. They think they are both helpful and cute. In West, people think of them as little scary. They worry that robots will take over world one day and control us. Professor Ishiguro told reporters that robots are very important. He said: "We will have more and more robots in our lives in future." He added that robots are now not so expensive and so are increasingly becoming part of everyday life in Japan: "Robots are now becoming affordable - no different from owning laptop," he said.