On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:44:27 +1300, Sir Gilligan Horry <GM@ga7rm5er.com>
wrote:

"I will not need to come here again," he told a conference in Sydney
earlier this week. "I will send my android instead."

The busy Japanese scientist expects his $500,000 lookalike will prove
most valuable for avoiding the regular trips to see his research
students at the ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication
Laboratories in Kyoto, an hour's drive away from his Osaka office.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/01/31/1138590502278.html

|Students of Hiroshi Ishiguro will struggle to tell their teacher from his robotic doppelganger...

With a good remote sensing/steering equipment this could become
fashion of the day: stay at home and make your 'droid do your work.

Thanks Jim!
C.