The new robot from Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. can't do much but chatter in a high-pitched voice. The 39,800-yen ($514 Cdn), 10-centimetre-tall, doll-like Kirobo Mini — whose name comes from "kibo," or "hope," and "robot" — supposedly has the smarts of a five-year-old. The company said it planned a gradual rollout, initially limited to Tokyo and Aichi prefecture in central Japan, near company headquarters, to get feedback from consumers. Toyota Motor Corp. SMO Moritaka Yoshida, right, and Fuminori Kataoka, project general manager for the company, pose for photographers with Kirobo Mini during a press unveiling in Tokyo. The only examples it gave were that it might say, "Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Source: CBC News October 03, 2016 19:41 UTC