Robots can help sell clothes to men, give language learners an enthusiastic partner to practice talking with, and get millennials and Gen Y kids to partake in traditional activities that only moms and dads are supposed to enjoy. That's all according to Hiroshi Ishiguro, professor at Osaka University, who was speaking about human-like androids at South by Southwest Interactive on Sunday.
"They can have those types of conversations," he said in front of a few hundred attendees at the Austin Convention Center in Texas' capital city.
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