There are two kinds of robots. The first type is the industrial robot. The second type of robots help us in our everyday lives. Robots of the later type are being used widely in Japan these days, helping people out in many areas—in hospitals, at homes and in schools.

   Recently professor Tomomasa Sato and others developed a “robotic room”. This room is a robot itself, and they let the robot help the    people inside. It has ten video cameras on the top of the room and walls. The robot can help the doctors and nurses do a lot of work with the help of its arms and nine computers. The robot’s arms can lift and carry things needed by sick persons and nurses, and can throw waste things away. 

   In the future, we may have robots at home to help out with the chores. Many people think these robots should look and move like humans. At Honda Motor Company, people made a robot that has two arms and two legs and can walk by itself, just like a person. This robot can walk freely by checking the road it walks on, and use its arms to do different things. The robot is 180 centimeters tall and weighs 210 kilograms. It can not only walk around flat places but go up and down stairs as well. It can also do such things as moving a bag. Not too far in the future, robots that look like movie characters may lend us a hand in our everyday jobs.