Just outside of Tokyo, there's a company called Little Island, run by Hiroaki Koike, that specializes in fashioning robotic dolls after the likenesses of real people. These dolls are surprisingly complex, with the ability to talk, react to touch and...

A Chinese farmer by the name of Wu Yulu travels around his hometown exclusively by rickshaw — and one pulled by a robot, no less. It's his own creation that he calls the "30 Second Son" for its operating time....