article_snippet.sent: Performing with natural movements, while voiced and controlled remotely by a voice impersonator, the robot was put through the robot paces in front of an incredulous audience for the first time on Nippon TV.
article_snippet.sent: For now, the robot is controlled by an human operator.
article_snippet.sent: But with 600 stock 'Deluxe' phases the robot can use in reply to voice and face recognition, the robot's hoped the Matsukoroid will be free of the Matsukoroid operator by the end of the series as its operator learns on the job.
article_snippet.sent: Creating the android: Matsukoroid robot was developed at a cost of around £55,931 by the Japanese labs .
article_snippet.sent: Pepper is the first humanoid robot designed to live with humans .
article_snippet.sent: said his was looking forward to 'using the first humanoid robot designed to live with humans to take a few well deserved days off'.
article_snippet.sent: the Matsukoroid was developed at a cost of around £55,931 by the Japanese labs that already produced an autonomous experimental news-reader.
article_snippet.sent: Yuya Furukawa, the creative genius behind a raft of entertainment robots including the remarkable Pepper, wants to spearhead a robotics revolution for the consumer, where entertainment robots are just the start.
article_snippet.sent: Currently, the domestic robot market is worth about 900 billion yen (about £5billion) according to Japan’s trade ministry, which forecasts a 10-fold increase  by 2035.