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Yes, but will it take a message?

If you’re visiting Japan and have a spare £1,000, conditions which we know eliminate many of our loyal readers, you might want to spend it on the world’s first mobile phone-controlled robot, a little critter operated by Bluetooth with a range of about 10 metres.
It’s the creation of a company called KDDI, and you buy it as a kit. If you’re asking yourself: ‘Yes, but what’s the point?’ the manufacturers say that eventually it will become a roving security camera, indicating that they obviously live in very small houses.

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