Hong Kong students gain vision of the future

Undergraduates from the city intern at Chinese Academy of Sciences for the first time. Zhang Zhihao and Zhang Yangfei report.

Lam Wah-shing, a 22-year-old senior from the City University of Hong Kong, learned to be a "father" this summer while interning at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the country's highest academic institute.

His "baby" was a 40-centimeter-tall humanoid robot named Xiaozi, or "small automaton". The robot lounged lazily when powered off, but once turned on, it walked around the room like a toddler, pursuing and kicking its program target - a red tin can.