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02/08/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

First robot TV news anchor takes the desk in Japan in April

The 23-year-old Erica isn’t just set to become Japan’s most recent news anchor, she’s also poised to become the country’s newest robotic reporter. Come April, Erica will be replacing a newscaster and will be reading news that was put together by humans. No further details have been given, though her creator and “father”, Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro, […]

04/04/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Linguists now working to replace human journalists with robots that can write the news

Can robots write our news? Researchers from the Media Management and Transformation Center (MMTC) at Jönköping International Business School mean to answer this question by launching a news site project that is entirely facilitated, managed, and propagated by robots. The project, called DPer News (Digital Personalization of the News), comes with the support of the Knowledge […]

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