An employee of Yamazaki Educa-tional Systems Co. holds two “My Baby 2” robotic babies at the Inter-national Robot Exhibition in Tokyo November 28, 2007. The robotic babies are designed to teach parenting skills and require feeding, diaper changes, burping and sleeping and al-so record data on how their human parents treat them.

山崎教育系統公司一名員工11月28日在東京舉行的國際機器人展中，抱著「也是我的兩個貝比」機器人寶寶。這些機器人貝比主要用來教導為人父母的技巧，他們還可藉這些貝比學習餵奶，換尿布，打嗝，睡覺，他們的人類父母對他們如何也將全都錄。

Showcasing around 1,000 industrial and service robots, this exhibition confirmed that Japan is hooked on androids, which manufacturers are seeking to adapt to the needs of an ageing society and a sliding popula-tion. The $620 robots employees of Yamazaki Co were busy nursing, im-ported from the United States, help teach students and soon-to-be par-ents how to care for infants. "The way students would touch a baby would be completely different once they have looked, touched, and ex-perienced this 'baby'," said Kaoru Nukui of Yamazaki Co. He then demonstrated how men can feel what breast feeding is like by putting a nipple-like sensor on his chest.

這次展覽共展示約一千個工業用和服務性機器人，這也證明，日本人十分迷戀機器人。製造廠商也正針對日本不斷老化的社會和下滑的人口而調整設計。山崎公司員工正忙著餵奶的貝比機器人，每個620美元，從美國進口，有助於教導學生和即將為人父母者如何照顧嬰兒。「在學生仔細觀察、觸摸和體驗這個貝比之後，他們觸摸嬰兒的方式完全不同，」山崎公司的貫井說。他並示範，男人只要把像奶頭的感應器放在胸部，也可以感受哺育寶寶的感覺。