One thing about Japan that interests me a lot is their work in robotics.
I saw some really neat things last year when discovery channel's Daily Planet had their "Japan Week". Robots that have conversations with you, robots that run and ones that look dang near human!
Does anyone have any interesting info on examples of advanced robotics from Japan?
P.S.
In the meantime here's an entertaining robot realted video from Japan.
ROBOT RASSLIN'!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 1193228548