An inventor in Canada wanted to develop an android to care for the elderly. But the robot soon turned into something more.

Le Trung has been programming life into Aiko over the last two years, spending about 24 thousand US dollars of his own money in the process.

Le Trung has been programming life into Aiko over the last two years, spending about 24 thousand US dollars of his own money in the process. Aiko can now read documents, recognize 250 faces per second, repeat directions, and distinguish between such sensations as a light tickle and pain.