Toyota Holds News Conference On Humanoid Robots

The Mirata humanoid communication robot, left, and the Kirobo humanoid communication robot, right, jointly developed by Dentsu Inc., University of Tokyo, Robo Garage Co. and Toyota Motor Corp., stand on display as Tomotaka Takahashi, president of Robo Garage Co., center, speaks while Yorichika Nishijima, executive producer at Dentsu Inc., left, and Fuminori Kataoka, project general manager of the product planning division at Toyota Motor Corp., right, look on during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Toyota Motor Corp. said a robot it co-developed will have the first human-robot conversation in space as part of a project to make machines that can interact with and assist people living alone. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images