Ms chua does not want either of her daughters " to end up like one of those weird asian automatons who feel so much pressure from their parents that they kill themselves after coming in second on the national civil service exam " .
There are similar concerns about automatons designed to watch over the elderly .
对于照顾老人的自动化机器也有相似的忧虑。
But without wheels , most automatons are still painfully slow . The tiny athletes who took part in the world 's first robot marathon , in osaka , took more than two days to finish the course .
