I can't believe she's hugging it. I wouldn't let that damn thing anywhere near me! Anyway, this robot was designed to help researchers study how infants develop motor skills during the first year of life.
Diego-san’s body has over 60 moving parts, making it Kokoro’s most
sophisticated robot to date. The robot weighs 30 kilograms (66 lbs) and
is 1.3 meters (4 ft 3 in) tall, which is quite a bit larger than the
average 1-year-old.
I don't see her lasting long because the kids have a really hard time remembering her name. Every day when they request her song on the radio, they say, "I wanna hear Tik Tok by I don't know who the artist is." Apparently, she was also on The Simple Life with Paris and Nicole. Small world.
“Afterwards one thought was - though this is not obligatory - to put the body
in an exhibition in a proper museum so people can properly understand the
mummification process. That is something we would be flexible about. But we
would like to keep the body for two or three years to see that the
mummification process worked. Then the normal funeral arrangements could be
made.”
Just don't expect to be paid for it. That would be unethical.
Lifetime Movie or Megadeth Song?: Take the quiz to see how well you know your chick flicks...um, or death metal. I never pay attention to the Lifetime film titles, so I totally bombed this quiz.