新奇事件簿 機器人讀報紙

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Japanese scientists have created the world's first news-reading robots. They really look and act like human beings. The android newscaster even sounded human and had a sense of humour. The scientists showed two robots to reporters in Tokyo. One of them is called "Kodomoroid". This word joins the Japanese for child, "kodomo," with the English word "android". The other robot is called "Otonoaroid" – the combination of the Japanese word for adult with "android". The first pieces of news read 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 say when robots would read the news for real.

日本科學(xué)家已經(jīng)研發(fā)出世界上第一批讀報機器人。他們的外表和行為與人類很像。機器人的新聞廣播員聽起來很像人類，而且還有幽默感?？茖W(xué)家在東京向記者展示了兩款機器人。其中一臺機器人叫做"Kodomoroid"。這個單詞是將日本表達(dá)小孩的單詞"kodomo"與英語單詞"android"結(jié)合起來的。另一臺機器人叫做"Otonoaroid",是與日本單詞中表示成年人的"android"結(jié)合起來的。機器人閱讀的第一條新聞是在想象中的東京地震，及FBI襲擊事件。機器人的創(chuàng)造者，是帶頭的機器人學(xué)教授Hiroshi Ishiguro。他沒說何時機器人才能真正閱讀新聞給人聽。

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

機器人在日本有廣闊的市場。許多公司投資許多錢研發(fā)制作更好的機器人。日本人對于機器人有非常美好的想象。他們認(rèn)為機器人實用又可愛。在西方，人們認(rèn)為機器人有點嚇人。他們擔(dān)心機器人會在某一天占領(lǐng)世界，統(tǒng)治人類。Ishiguro教授告訴記者，機器人非常重要。他說，將來我們的生活中會有越來越多的機器人。他還說，機器人的價格現(xiàn)在也不是很貴，所以機器人在日本逐漸變成了日常生活的一部分。他說，人們現(xiàn)在買得起機器人，與買電腦沒什么區(qū)別。