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An emotional robot! Unbelievable but scientists in Britain have developed human like robot which reacts and have feelings like human. Developed at the University of the West of England in Bristol was aimed to explore human reaction to machine that give emotional feedback’s.

The robot named Heart Robot have a beating heart, a breathing belly, and sensors that respond to movement, noise and touch, the robot reacts emotionally to being scared or cuddled. Actually it is half robot and half puppet. The Heart Robot is the star attraction of the ‘Emotibots’ exhibition at London’s Science Museum.

“Heart Robot looks like a cross between ET and Gollum and is about the size of a small child,” said Holly Cave, who helped organize the Emotibots event at the Science Museum where the machine was unveiled.

“He’s half robot, half puppet. You move him around by hand, but he has innate responses that appear emotional,” he was quoted as saying by the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

Telling about the reactions of children toward the Emotibots, Cave said, “They either want to hug and cuddle him, and look after him like a doll or baby, or they just want to scare him.”

A six-legged metallic spidery robot called Hexapod was also displayed there who records people watching him and plays back video on a plasma screen.

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The long talks between the Bollywood damsel Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Shankar for the Rajnikant dream project ROBOT have finally reached to a conclusion leading Aish to sign the movie for which she is being paid mind boggling money estimated to be around six crores making her the actress to be paid maximum ever in the Bollywood history. The project being produced by Ayngaran international, is supposed to start off in the last week of August after a small pooja, as opposed to the first week of June, as plans originally, due to some problems.

Considering the whopping amount being given to Ash, date problem could not have been an issue for this star struck actress and as considered, she has offered bulk dates to the producer. Lately being in the news for the Bachchan parivaar’s “Unforgettable World Tour” which is being organized by Wiz craft and starring a list of some A-list bollywood celebrities, Aishwarya now sure has become every actresses’ envy. The world tour, which is to begin on July 6th is almost a two months long event after which the Bachchan bahu is goin to start off with her Robot.

In the meanwhile, till the time Aish covers the world tour, Shankar is planning to shoot a song for his movie which does not require her presence. As the lady finishes the family professional tour, she would again be globe trotting with the crew of Robot, as Shankar plans the shooting of his dream project all around the world.

Her recent release, Ram Gopal Verma’s sequel to his hit Sarkar, Sarkar Raj, also brought accolades to the actress where she was seen with her new family, Mr. Amitabh Bachchan and the hubby dear Abhishek Bachchan. With all the new big projects falling in her kitty, be it Hollywood or Bollywood, Aishwarya is sure in her best face of the Bollywood career, but now the question lies, is all this sudden luck, the Bachchan charm or is it her self made status and her hard work which has made her the maximum paid actress?? Whatever be the reasons, Best of luck for her career……

Tags: Abhishek Bachchan, Aish, Aishwarya, Aishwarya Rai, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Bachchan, Bachchan Parivaar, Bollywood, Rajnikant, Ram Gopal Verma, Robot, Shankar