The updates keep on coming in. I've just learned that the Prototype Robot Exhibition kicked off today at the best expo in the world which I told you about back during Robot Week. Both Yahoo and MSNBC feature a photo which they identify as 'Optical-Tongue Robot', though IAAFOTS readers will recognize that he is, in fact, PaPeRo with an optical-tongue attachment and a hat. Other highlights mentioned in that MSNBC article include Cooper, who draws the faces of visitors on large cookies, and "a model called InterAnimal is a teddy bear about four feet tall that moves its arms and nods in synch to the sound the human voice. Developers claim it helps children who have problems talking with adults." There may have been some translation issues with that last sentence, I believe that the Japanese words for "helps" and "accidentally pummels then smothers" sound very similar. Meanwhile CNN just concentrates on the ugly ballroom dancing robot (UgBaDaRo). There's also a baseball hitting robot mentioned, which has reminded me of something I found out about while listening to the Orioles-Pirates game on Tuesday night and promptly forgot - it was Robotics Night in Pittsburgh and a robot threw out the first pitch. Would've been cool if he'd gone berserk and robo-beaned the entire Pirate line-up, as the 3 game series that just wrapped up last night turned out a lot like the last time the Orioles played in Pittsburgh back in 1979... but we're still in first place, 3 games ahead of the Red Sox, so I can't complain too much. Other than to complain that I'm not in Aichi, Japan hobnobbing with the robots of tomorrow, today, of course.