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Japanese robot to take top-ranked university exam
• http://www.myfoxdc.com, By AFP"It has to analyse the exam questions and convert formulations and equations to a form that it can process before solving it through computer algebra," said Hidenao Iwane from Fujitsu Laboratories, the Japanese IT giant's research unit.
Fujitsu and Japan's National Institute of Informatics said the target is to have their robot score high marks on the exam for Tokyo University, one of the world's top-ranked schools, by 2021.
Before then, they're hoping the robot can sail through national entrance exams which all university-bound students must take in Japan.
"(But) getting a computer to understand text that was intended for humans is not an easy task," it added.