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(AFP/File) - An engineering student soothes Yotaro, a robot which emulates a real baby at Tsukuba University in Japan. Yotaro's face, made of soft translucent silicon with a rosy hue, is backlit by a projector connected to a computer to simulate crying, sneezing, sleeping and smiling, while a speaker can let out bursts of baby giggles.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)

(AFP) - Engineering students at Japan's Tsukuba University have developed a robot that mimics a real baby and its fickle moods in the hope it may teach young people the pleasures of parenting amid a demographic crisis in with the country's population rapidly ageing. Duration: 00:22(AFP)

(AFP/File) - An engineering student displays Yotaro, a baby robot, at a laboratory in Tsukuba University, Japan. Yotaro changes its facial expressions and moves its arms and legs when different parts of its face and body are touched.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)