A robot #journalist made its debut in a Chinese daily .. #press

BEIJING: A robot journalist made its debut in a Chinese daily on Wednesday with a 300-characters-long article written in just a second, scientists say.

The article, published in the Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily, focused on the Spring Festival travel rush.

Its author, Xiao Nan, took only a second to finish writing the piece and is able to write both short stories and longer reports, according to Wan Xiaojun, a professor at Peking University who leads the team studying and developing such robots.