SCIENCE - Roboy, the robotic 'boy' set to help humans with everyday tasks (and scientists hope to build him in just nine months)

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.

'Financing the project  through sponsorship and crowd funding enables us to implement an extremely ambitious project in an academic environment", said Professor Rolf Pfeifer, wh is leading the project.

The team hope Roboy will become a blueprint for 'service robots' that work alongside humans.

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