| March 15, 2006 |
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Aging Japan Building Robots To Look After Elderly Tokyo (AFP) Mar 15, 2006 
A Japanese-led research team Tuesday said it had made a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country's growing number of elderly. Government-backed research institute Riken said the 158-centimeter (five-foot) RI-MAN humanoid can already carry a doll weighing 12 kilograms (26 pounds) and could be capable of bearing 70 kilograms within five years |