Routines are worked out by Aichan, who searches the internet for news about a given topic and then creates a script, according to the Japan Daily Press . It says the team from Konan's Faculty of Intelligence and Informatics created Aichan in 2009 to give auto-responses to questions. But they set about giving him a comedy partner a couple of years later for fun. It seems they've been performing at student events for a few months. Still, Prof Akiyo Nadamoto, who's researching an auto-scripting system, has spotted one flaw in their act. "At times, they are often not very funny," he's quoted as saying.