This is a joke, right? Some sort of Korean April Fools? Apparently not. Telecoms Korea is showing this image of “Albert Hubo,” a borged Albert Einstein, on their website. According to the description: “Albert Hubo is a humanoid robot that has the face of Albert Einstein, as if he is alive with robot body. It walks, expresses various emotions, looks into the eyes of people, and talks with them.” Although the images shown on the site are concept drawings, the company claims “Albert” will be demo’d at next week’s APEC (Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation) conference.
And this is not the only wacky-looking bot TK plans to roll out — see also “T-Rot,” the bartending bot that looks like a Parcheesi piece, and “Kibo,” a monster-size LEGO figure that eats small children for fuel (okay, we made up that last bit).
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Korean electronics giant LG has announced their own Roomba-like robot domestic, called the RoboKing in Korea, the LG V-R4000 elsewhere (apparently ’cause we wacky Westerners LOVE the alphanumeric salad). 
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