Robot.....it's alive, alive!!!

It sounds and looks and will always be science fiction, watching Short Circuit, Astroboy, A.I. and other movies, starring robots that are almost human.Yup, because we all know that robots are pre-programmed to do their jobs. But now it seems like science fiction changes more into a real life story.

A Japanese scientist, Osamu Hasegawa of the Tokio Institute of Technology, developed a robot that can think and learn by itself. For example, if you ask the robot to bring soysauce to the diningtable, the robot gathers information on the internet (on his own) about what soysauce is, and then he can find it in the kitchen. Next challenge for scientists is to learn robots moral values, which would help them to decide what's right or wrong. Hmm, so 'Johnny 5 is ALIVE' in the future for real? And we all have our own Astroboy over 5 years?