There was an entire robot expo (Score 2, Informative)

This BBC story seems to be a fresh rewrite of this old National Geographic piece: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/06 10_050610_robot.html ... which was blogged here in mid-month: http://icold.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_icold_archive .html The news event unfortunately did not make it to the robot expo's event site here: http://www-1.expo2005.or.jp/en/robot/robot_project _00.html If you search on co-creator "Hiroshi Ishiguru" you get little more than this story, however.