Etcetra ; In the latest Rajinikanth flick Robot, the Tamil superstar plays an Android robot called Chitti which looks, walks and talks like a human being.

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Humanoid Robots

In the latest Rajinikanth flick Robot, the Tamil superstar playsan Android robot called Chitti which looks, walks and talks like ahuman being (Rajinikanth to be precise). Chitti also dances, fallsin love and eventually hopes to, ahem, procreate with the lissomeAishwarya Rai to spawn a new species called Robo Sapiens. Inreality, robots are far away from achieving such a feat, butscientists in Italy created a humanoid robot which taught itself howto use a bow and arrow. The humanoid called iCub took eight turnsbefore it hit the bull's eye.

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A humanoid is a robot with its overall appearance based on …