Unit 4 Pygmalion Learning about language课时作业

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　　At Aizo Chuo Hospital in Japan, employees greet newcomers, guide patients to and from the surgery area, and print out maps of the hospital for confused visitors. They don't take lunch breaks or even get paid. Why? They're robots!

　　Robots have long worked in factories, helping to build cars and electronic appliances. But today's robots don't just do the jobs of people-they actually look and act a lot like people.

　　Kansei, a robot from Japan, has a plastic face covering 19 movable parts. The robot can make 36 facial expressions in response to different words. Kansei shakes in fear at the word "war" and smiles when it hears the word "dinner"．

　　Researchers in Europe are going even further with iCub, a "baby" robot. They are teaching it to speak and hold conversations.

　　The ability to interact is crucial for robots that will one day work closely with humans, says robotics professor ChrisAtkeson. "This will require robots to understand what you say and how you are feeling and respond with appropriate emotions，" he told WRNews.

Japanese scientist Minoru Asada agrees. He is building a robot called CB2 that acts like a real baby. "Right now, it only goes, 'Ah, ah.' But as we develop its learning function, it will start saying more complex