Bandai to develop REAL Doraemon by 2010

[ultragaijin]

Bandai Launches Project to Give 'Life' to Doraemon (http://www.nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/news/185015)

Prototype:

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/images/proto.jpg

The following third step is expected to be the autumn of 2010. They will develop a "complete form," which will have the same height of 129.3cm as originally set in the animation. It is a self-evolving robot "Real Dream Doraemon," with artificial intelligence. It will change the course of conversations and behaviors with others by drawing deductions from communications with them through daily experiences.

I am not making this up.

[Taro Toporific]

Bandai Launches Project to Give 'Life' to Doraemon (http://www.nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/news/185015)
Prototype....
The following third step is expected to be the autumn of 2010.
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:9qq0WfiNr2wC:www.starcat.pe.kr/star/doraemon/doraemon-wall.jpg
Talking Ding-dong robot of cartoon fame becomes reality
18 January 2004 1654 hrs / channelnewsasia.com
TOKYO : (http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/66849/1/.html) Doraemon, a hugely popular robot cat Japanese cartoon character also known as Ding-dong, will be a step closer to reality in March when Japan's biggest toymaker makes a talking version of it the latest addition to its line-up of high-tech playthings.
Bandai Co. Ltd., which scored a world smash hit in 1996-1997 with its "Tamagotchi" egg-shaped virtual pets that required constant care, will start selling "Doraemon the Robot" in Japan in late March for 19,800 yen (186 dollars) each....