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Please don't cry lady, you'll destroy my CPU.

Saturday, March 17, 2001
Japan's toy giant Tomy has paid an employee to pretend she's talking to their new communication robot Memoni, and she (the employee, not the robot) isn't happy about it.

The robot is equipped with a 32-bit processor in its CPU, and has an LCD display that shows over 300 patterns of expression.

Memoni's artificial intelligence enables it to recognize over 20,000 words in a conversational context and to respond with 2 billion sentence patterns.

Tomy will put Memoni on the Japanese market for 18,000 yen ($US150).

Icon Online only wonders why you'd have children at all when you can have Memoni?

Alexa Moses and agencies.