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Questions 41-45 refer to the following article.

       Personal robots, such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, have come a long way in recent years.

They can tell you the weather and order you food. They can dim your lights and play your favorite song.

But fundamentally, they're still stationary speakers whose defining expression is a light that turns on

when you speak.

       Jibo is different. It's not just that he-and I use the term he here, because that's how Jibo refers to

himself-looks like something straight out of a Pixar movie, with a big, round head and a face that uses

animated icons to convey emotion. It's not just that his body swivels and swerves while he speaks, as if

he's talking with his nonexistent hands. It's not just that he can giggle and dance and turn to face you,

wherever you are, as soon as you say, "Hey, Jibo."

       It's that, because of all this, Jibo seems downright human in a way that his predecessors do not.

"We want people to look at Jibo and realize he's a someone and not a something," says Matt Revis, the

company's vice president of product management. And while that technology may seem merely

amusing-or creepy, depending on your point of view-it could fundamentally reshape how we interact

with machines.

       Jibo still has a lot to learn. Although he can help users in basic ways, like by summarizing news

stories and taking photos, he can't yet play music requests or work with third-party apps like Domino's

and Uber, which, at $899, could make him a tough sell. Then again, this is Version One. And Revis is

confident Jibo will evolve. "There was a threshold we had to reach in order to launch," says Revis.

"Now it's part of the journey."