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Video: Japanese humanoid robots

Robotic scientists’ latest breakthrough is a wise-cracking robot, whose makers claim can even read people’s emotions.

Wednesday 16 July 2014 17:48 BST
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Pepper, the 3ft 11in shiny box of circuits who can tell jokes and respond to human emotions
Pepper, the 3ft 11in shiny box of circuits who can tell jokes and respond to human emotions (Reuters)

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