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WABOT-1: 'I taught the first humanoid robot to speak'
In 1973, a team at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan created WABOT-1, the world's first humanoid robot. WABOT could walk, talk and respond to speech.
Dr Hiromichi Fujisawa was tasked with making it speak. He tells Ben Henderson about his time in the laboratory with the other students and professors who helped bring the machine to life.
(Picture: Hiromichi and WABOT-1. Credit: Waseda University.)
