Trung Le, Aiko

Trung Le, 33, sits with his robot, named Aiko, at his parents house in Brampton, Ont., on Thursday, December, 11, 2008. Aiko _ quite possibly Canada’s first android _ has a 13,000-word vocabulary, can recognize your face, shake how-do-you-do, read you a story, add sums and deliver the current weather. Costing $25,000 so far in parts _ including a sex doll from Japan for a body, sensors on her head, arms, face and breasts, oodles of bone-structure mechanics, a camera in her neck and computer processors _ the project has moved from hobby to full-fledged passion. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette