Robot Boy To Be 'Born' In 9 Months, And Programmed To Do All His Chores

And yours, too! Where are our mass-produced robot butlers already, the Rosies of our Jetsons families? Still a ways off, unfortunately, but here's the next best thing: 'Roboy,' a child-like service bot that researchers are billing as “one of the most advanced humanoid robots." Roboy, which the inventors are trying to create in nine months, is tendon-based, and it's modeled on people. Young ones, in this case. The idea is for it to help out with duties usually reserved for humans, depending...