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ESL / EFL Lesson Activity on Japan's Birthrate

Japanese students have a robot that looks like a baby to get to have children. The birthrate in Japan is . The population may by a third over the next 50 years. The students hope their new robot baby will this trend. The baby is called Yotara. It really looks and acts like a real baby. It , wakes up when it hears a rattle and when someone rubs its . Project leader Hiroki Kunimara said: "We wanted to a new type of robot that is soft, and cute.”

It’s what they are doing with robots these days. The Yotara robot looks like a good idea. Japan needs all the help it can get to its birthrate. If the population by thirty per cent, the country will have problems. It seems to make – people get to see and with the robot and that might them to start a family or have more children. Maybe the robot has other , such as in hospitals or schools. Many young Japanese people get to hold a real baby these days.