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    Japan's electronics giant Toshiba introduces the prototype housekeeping robot "ApriAttenda" which is able to open the door of a refrigerator and picks up a bottle during a demonstration of its ability at the company's laboratory in Kasawaki, Kanagawa prefecture, suburban Tokyo on March 11, 2009. The robot has wired controled hands with three fingers on its arm and small CCD camerasin the palms of its hands. The 1-meter tall roboto can become 0.3m taller to work at high place. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)