13.06.2010 08:50 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Giant robo-babies crawl out of your nightmares and into reality (video)

We like robots that play soccer, safe wildlife, and clean our stuff. We're not, however, particularly fond of robots who look like extras in horror movies. Such are M3-Kindy and Noby, a pair of bots recently shown at the JST Erato Asada Project symposium in Japan, both designed to study human development by basically pretending to be babies. Noby, pictured above, is a sort of abbreviation for "none-month old baby," and that's exactly what it purports to be with a size, shape, weight, and behavior that emulates a human in

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