APhoto Of The Day — 2.17.11

Kudan Elementary School children touch a cheek of Japan’s robot teacher Saya following a special class by the robot that can express six basic emotions, developed by Tokyo University of Science Professor Hiroshi Kobayashi, in Tokyo. Japan’s space agency JAXA announced Monday that it is considering putting a talking humanoid robot on the International Space Station in 2013 to watch the mission while astronauts are asleep, monitor their health and stress levels and communicate to Earth through the microblogging site Twitter. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, FILE)

Top Cutlines:

• 1. Tom Luna’s perfect woman, the robot teacher, the brain of “Watson” but no cleavage — Phaedrus.
• 2. (tie) Tom Luna’s latest plan for education “reform” in Idaho — Moscow Minidoka, and: This is how it begins. John Conner warned us and we failed to listen — Nic.
• 3. The U.S. has had this technology on display for the last twenty years. We call it Al Gore! — Formerly Sandpoint.
• HM: Brent Andrews