Sony's Talking Wonderbot

MANHATTAN, New York - When a Robot stands outside the NY tech center of one of the biggest electronic manufacturing conglomerates, you expect it to be … well, a robot. You would think it would be packed with semiconductor technology perhaps running artificial software with ability to respond and interact to simple external inputs. But not only did the dim-witted piece of machinery lack the sophistication of Asimo and the other futuristic humanoid robots but was also a fake. It also looked more like the colonel Sanders with the head replaced with a coconut. But despite its hideous appearance one would still expect the silly looking contraption to be a real robot capable of constructing a few words on it's own that would make it appear intelligent. It was with deep disappointment I discovered it was in fact a man inside a room with a set of cameras, a mic and a cheat sheet. One would expect more from Sony! Doesn't Sony make calculators? The man couldn’t even do simple division. Wonder what is inside my Sony digital camera? A high school dropout?