Apparently NO ONE is having babies in Japan. Right night the "mood du jour" is to be isolated. It's popular to spend time alone, dating isn't the norm. That's why Real Dolls and products for having single sex (with yourself) at home are very popular. People in Japan work long hours and a friend of mine who has lived in Japan for two years said that people rarely fraternize or date outside of the friends groups they make in grade school. The article below is about a new little baby robot that is trying to evoke emotions from people who otherwise would not have given child raising a second thought. Americans seem to be having babies left and fucking right, maybe they should take a cue from us and start instilling abstinence only education? Seems to help the rising teen birth rate here!
FROM CNN:
Tokyo, Japan (CNN) -- Yotaro cries, giggles, and kicks when you tickle him. He sneezes and his nose runs. When he is upset, his rattle calms him down.
An average baby -- sort of -- since Yotaro is a robot. His inventors hope he will help Japan's sagging birth rate, among the lowest in the world.
"A robot can't be human but it's great if this robot triggers human emotions, so humans want to have their own baby," said Hiroki Kunimura, the project leader for the Yotaro robot.
Kunimura and his University of Tsukuba team originally built Yotaro because they wanted to create a robot that would appeal across national and cultural lines. Since a baby doesn't have any language skills yet, they chose to build a robotic infant.
The University of Tsukuba students then started showing off Yotaro at robot competitions, and were surprised by the reactions from the public and the media.
"People asked us if this baby robot was created to tackle the low birth rate in Japan," said Kunimura, who describes himself as Yotaro's "daddy."
The low birth rate wasn't the initial concept, but when Kunimura started seeing how the public touched and reacted to Yotaro, he saw the possibility of a robotic solution to a social crisis.
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Grreat read
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