Humanoid communication robot Kirobo, center, talks with Fuminori Kataoka, project general manager from Toyota Motor Corp., during a press unveiling in Tokyo Wednesday, June 26, 2013. The worldâs first space conversation experiment between a robot and humans is ready to be launched. Developers from the Kirobo project, named after âkiboâ or hope in Japanese and ârobot,â gathered to demonstrate the humanoid robotâs ability to talk. Kirobo, jointly developed by organizations including Dentsu Inc., Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Robo Garage Co. and Toyota., is scheduled to launch from the Tanegashima Space Center on Aug. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)