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

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