If Turkle is right that these two groups are the ones getting the robots, we need to think again about the world we build with them.

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Vinod Khosla has rather stunned a conference of doctors with his idea that what we really need to do is get rid of 80% of doctors and replace them with robots.

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Professor Shuji Hashimoto, director of the humanoid robotics centre at Waseda University in Tokyo, has a theory: robots need a solid dose of those Japanese manners (don't we all?) encompassed in the Japanese word kansei, which includes feelings, mood, intuitiveness and sensibility.

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