My Robot “friend”

Instead of worrying about robots taking over our work, we should worry about the increasing number of robots as the labor force ages.

This is the realistic robot geminoid f (left) and Professor Mari velonaki (right), who is studying human-computer interaction with the robot. On the surface, geminoid f seems to be a Japanese woman in her 20s, about 165cm tall, with black hair, brown eyes and soft and delicate skin. When she thinks…