News Discussion for IE2 Core#1

<Source of the article>

“Japan Makes Robot Girlfriend For Lonely Men”, 17, June, 2008.

*Who?     A Japanese firm

*What?    Has produced a 38cm tall robotic girlfriend

*When?    September, 2008

*Where?   Japan

*Why?     Breaking robots’ stereotype and providing it’s sweet and interabtive

*How?     Selling robotic girlfriend for lonely men

<Summary>

Robotic girlfriend, named EMA, which is target at lonely adult men, has been produced by a Japanese firm Sega. She is diminutive damsel and be able to act like a real girlfriend, so Sega think that they can break robots’ stereotype and provide a robot that’s sweet and interactive. Japan envisage a 10 billion dollar market for artificial intelligence in ten years.

<My Opinion>

Today, there are a number of lonely people, not only adult men, is in Japan. For example, children whose parents work all day feel lonely, too. They must need someone’s love. I think that robot will be able to give love to such people. And robot family will produce in the future. In the near future, people will enjoy their lives with robots as a family member, and the industry of robots will be enrich our country.

<Vocabulary>

*firm   a business or company

*diminutive   small and thin(of girl, woman or her figure)

*damsel   a young woman who is not married

*envision   to imagine what a situation will be like in the future