Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.

Atsushi Hoshino

Yohane Takeuchi

Motohiro Ishii

Takemasa Kudou

Minoru Itou

The present invention provides a chat information system having a voice recognition device for recognizing voices, a voice synthesizer, a humanoid robot, a microphone for receiving the voices and a speaker for pronouncing synthesized voices. The system comprises a headline sensor capturing news from the Internet, a news database for storing the captured news, and a conversation database including at least a general conversation database storing a set of inquiries and responses. The system also includes a chat engine configured to extract one or more keywords from a user's speech that has been recognized by the voice recognition device, to search at least one of the news database and the conversation database with the extracted keywords and to output via the speaker the contents that have been hit by the search.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Atsushi Hoshino