intelligent conversational android her name comes from the erato is she good or symbiotic human robot interactions project i'm being developed by researches from the soka university and kyoto university to be capable of human like speech and interaction but to her programmers and visitors she simply erica some people say that my feelings are only programmed that they're not real but if i think they're real then they are real do you think so i'm the lead architect of the eric a project i kind of created her mind and wrote all the software that kind of constitutes you know her brain or controls her behaviors dylan glass is a guest associate professor at osaka university he spent 3 years working on erika a lot of my research has been into how do we create the software how do we create the mind of a robot erica was designed to be the world's most advanced most autonomous android and that was really the goal with creating her a lot of other androids have been developed for cooperation or studying you know remote presence and things like that but really the focus with erica is to have her b

we've had our feet in the sand for years and years, and now we need to start thinking about putting erato in the snow. -- our toe in the s now. but i knoward, general o'shaughnessy is really working hard on all of that, too, and i know the collaboration between you, and northcom is tight, just knowing the individuals that are involved. dohael: let's see if we can one last question. and we have just one more. gen. robinson: yay. >> kevin. i have two questions. gen. robinson: he said just one. [laughter] gen. robinson: i'm teasing. i'm teasing. >> a few months ago, russians tested their new hypersonic weapon. as far as i know, u.s. has no similar hypersonic weapons, or similar capability. andians did not do terrible not intercept of for norad. to have someou comment on it. weather is intercept of all double --ntercept interceptable at all, or if you have capability to intercept it it?lter -- or to deter gen. robinson: as i was leaving the department, this was a hot topic. they were working to understand what they saw in russia and what they perceive the capabilities would be, and what can w