I know a lot of you liked these two videos, so I finally put them on YouTube today so you could see a better quality version of them - but, as expected, there’s a copyright problem because of the music used. So, I have them ‘unlisted’ at YouTube - not sure if that stops them from being removed?? But, for now, they’re viewable here - enjoy ;-)
Hello people. I know lots of you enjoyed the photos, videos and reports from the President and First Lady’s trip to Asia - so, I’ve added an ‘Asia November 2010’ category to the sidebar on the right. It will - I hope - make it easier for you to find all the coverage of the trip.
HuffPost: Last week, President Obama visited Japan to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. He also took some time out to interact with the country’s advanced robots.
Obama listened to the croonings of the HRP-4C singing android and petted a moving, squealing plush seal ‘bot used to cheer hospital patients.
The president’s hosts also sat him down in the futuristic Toyota i-Real, a single-person pod car that reaches speeds of up to 15km/hr, reports TechCrunch.
Though Obama wasn’t quite up for the challenge of driving the i-Real, he did say “That’s what we’re going to be driving” as he exited the vehicle.
“Meeting with robots was probably more enjoyable than the often tough negotiations attended in recent days,” Obama said, according to NewsKF.
President Barack Obama observes the Cybernetic Human Robot prior to the start of the APEC dinner at the Pacifico Yokohama Conference Center in Yokohama, Japan, Nov. 13, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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