i am a copy of professor hiroshi ishiguro. ot created by professor ishiguro in his own likeness and has even been used to fill in for him during lectures that he couldn't attend. we are looking for the definition of humans by creating a very human—like robot, so that is our final goal. our purpose is notjust to develop a robot but to understand the human itself. the lab has developed a number of humanlike robots, from receptionists to schoolteachers, and is looking at how to create empathy between humans and robots. hiroshi believes that soon we may see far closer relationships between us and our electronic counterparts. of course, we want to give human right to the robot. then the robots is going to be our partners and therefore, if people want to have a marriage with a robot, we should allow it. we might find humanities in the robot. we believe this is our futures. thank you so much. but not everyone is trying to build robots in our own image. this is professor tomotaka takahashi and this is his lab at tokyo university. he's