Engineers at the University of Zurich's Artificial Intelligence Lab hope that 1.2m tall Roboy, designed to look like a child, will eventually help the sick and elderly by acting as a mechanical helper.
The team has already signed up 15 project partners and over 40 engineers, and hope to fund the project using a combination of commercial partners and crowdfunding.
The team hope Roboy will become a blueprint for 'service robots' that work alongside humans.
'Service robots are machines that are, to a certain extent, able to execute services independently for the convenience of human beings,' the researchers say.
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