A humanoid robot developed by Japanese professor Takeno Junichi and a team of researchers is able to form 36 different facial expressions. A particular expression is formed after a word is typed into its software, which possesses a database of 500,000 words. From there, the software "extracts word associations" and makes calculations that results in pinpointing a level of expression from pleasantness to unpleasantness. In the end, the humanoid robot forms the appropriate facial expression.
Interesting progress on research and development of humanoid robot. It is just unfortunate that this being Japan, a country that suffered from the A-Bomb, and in that picture above (taken from the Mainichi Shimbun), the robot is reacting to the word BOMB.
