科技动态:机器人能提高人口出生率?（在线收听）

Parents tending to an infant, well, not a human one. This is yotaro, baby robot. He giggles, sneezes, and even cries with a running nose, until you touch his warm silicon skin and calm him down.

家长们喜欢的是孩子，而不是成年的机器人。这是Yotaro，机器人宝宝。它能咯咯笑，打喷嚏，还能像婴儿般涕泪横流，只有你触碰它温润的硅制皮肤，它才会安静下来。

A robot can be human, says yotaro project leader Hiroki Kunimura. But it's great if this robot triggers human emotion so humans want to have their own baby.

Yotaro计划的领导人Hiroki Kunimura说，机器人可以像人类一样。如果Yotaro能激发人们对孩子的喜爱，他们的发明就是物尽其用了。

Yotaro's emotions are a computer program. The images projected, the warm body temperature just warm water, all of these to make him as human-like and baby-like as possible, and get woman's biological clock ticking. The blast to you.

Yotaro的表情是由电脑系统控制的。婴儿脸部投影的画面，如温水般的体温和其他一切使它更像人类，更像婴儿，而这些因素都呼唤着女人内在的母性，而这是无法抵挡的。

Japan has a major population problem, one of the world's lowest birth rates coupled with the fastest ageing population. Japan's government desperate to boost more children is now paying families 150 dollars per month per child until he or she reaches high school. Have more children, make more money, say lawmakers. These university students believe robotic encouragement may work better than the government's stipend.

日本有着严峻的人口问题，它是世界上新生儿出生率最低的国家，同时又是人口老龄化最快的国家。日本政府急切地鼓励夫妇们生育孩子，政府为每名新生儿每月支付150美元，直到他或她上高中。立法者宣传说，生的越多，福利越多。大学学生们认为，这款机器人对夫妇们抚育孩子的鼓励可能比政府的奖励制度更加有效。

Yotaro changes how I feel about babies, says Madoka Hirai. I am now paying more attention to babies on the street. Yotaro is not a complex robot, and after a few minutes, a tad redundant. But this robot already succeeds at least getting people thinking about babies. The first step they hope, and helping to solve a serious human dilemma.

Madoka Hirai说，Yotaro改变了我对孩子的看法。我现在会注意在街上玩耍的小孩子。Yotaro不是一个精密的机器，也不是累赘的小孩子，但无论如何它都成功的将人们的注意力吸引到了小孩子的身上。设计者首先的初衷就是改变日本人口的两难局面。

Kyung Lah, CNN, Tsukuba, Japan.

Kyung Lah筑波（日本城市名）报道，CNN新闻。