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| starmekitten |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 12:18:04
Japanese develop 'female' android
Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet - a "female" android named Repliee Q1Expo.
She has flexible silicone for skin rather than hard plastic, and a number of sensors and motors to allow her to turn and react in a human-like manner. She can flutter her eyelids and move her hands like a human. She even appears to breathe.
Repliee Q1Expo is not like any robot you will have seen before, at least outside of science-fiction movies. She is designed to look human and although she can only sit at present, she has 42 actuators in her upper body, powered by a nearby air compressor, programmed to allow her to move like a human.
Prof Hiroshi Ishiguro
"I have developed many robots before," Repliee Q1Expo's designer, Professor Ishiguro, told the BBC News website, "but I soon realised the importance of its appearance. A human-like appearance gives a robot a strong feeling of presence."
Designed to look human
Before Repliee Q1Expo, Professor Ishiguro developed Repliee R1 which had the appearance of a five-year-old Japanese girl. Its head could move in nine directions and it could gesture with its arm. Four high-sensitivity tactile sensors were placed under the skin of its left arm that made the android react differently to differing pressures.
The follow-up has the appearance of a Japanese woman. To program her motion, a computer analysed the motions of a human and used them as a template for the way Repliee Q1Expo moves. She can be designed to follow the movement of a human wearing motion sensors or to act independently.
"Repliee Q1Expo can interact with people. It can respond to people touching it. It's very satisfying, although we obviously have a long way to go yet."
Professor Ishiguro believes that it may prove possible to build an android that could pass for a human, if only for a brief period.
"An android could get away with it for a short time, 5-10 seconds. However, if we carefully select the situation, we could extend that, to perhaps 10 minutes," he said. "More importantly, we have found that people forget she is an android while interacting with her. Consciously, it is easy to see that she is an android, but unconsciously, we react to the android as if she were a woman."
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A female android, figures
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| 35 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| VoVat |
Posted - 08/17/2005 : 12:18:48
quote:
Right before the ability to fetch a cold beer and a warm pizza.
Or sake and sushi, perhaps.
Is this starting us along the path to the Stepford Wives becoming real?
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
| Carl |
Posted - 08/03/2005 : 22:00:19
That's an odd dream! ;D |
| zub_the_goat |
Posted - 08/03/2005 : 15:27:19
heh, my ex always used to dream that i would leave him for a shiny robot....im still waiting |
| Carl |
Posted - 08/03/2005 : 13:10:51
quote:
Originally posted by Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo
Robot by a Star Wars fan:
Help him please:
****
 I can't help a man who sticks a stormtrooper helmet onto to a Robot Wars toy cart!! |
| Carl |
Posted - 08/03/2005 : 13:09:59
Wow! And, of course, it's the Japanese! |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 08/03/2005 : 07:35:31
she's actually wearing lace gloves, I found a bigger picture that shows it
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| tobafett |
Posted - 08/02/2005 : 18:10:49
quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten
. She can flutter her eyelids and move her hands like a human. She even appears to breathe.
She is designed to look human and although she can only sit at present, she has 42 actuators in her upper body, powered by a nearby air compressor, programmed to allow her to move like a human.
those are some big scary hands.
so she can sit and already can move air in-n-out...
there ya go! |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 08/02/2005 : 06:34:47
That may just beat RobotFrank.
I am not sure that Kiki will find that picture appropriate for the thread though. She may question if you know what it is actually about.
Don't believe the type!
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| Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo |
Posted - 08/02/2005 : 02:47:01
Robot by a Star Wars fan:
Help him please:
**** |
| IceCream |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 18:29:05
quote:
Originally posted by Erebus
Well, when women get around to it, they can design male androids.
I thought this was quite funny in spite of its extreme falsehood and offensiveness. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 15:22:58
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
Yes I have and it turned to crap long before I posted that. Bad day today Kiki?
Don't believe the type!
Actually, I've had a fine day, having had a fun weekend, thank you.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| darwin |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 15:21:47
quote:
Originally posted by whoreatthedoor
It would be even better if you could choose the quantity and texture of it, don't you think?
Don't forget temperature. Nobody likes a frigid sexbot. |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 15:21:27
Yes I have and it turned to crap long before I posted that. Bad day today Kiki?
Don't believe the type!
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| kathryn |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 15:19:01
Have you actually read this thread, Homers, or are you simply popping in at the tail end and posting your happy Homers thoughts?
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 15:18:06
What? He's the most life-like robot ever!
Don't believe the type!
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| kathryn |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 15:14:49
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
Robots are cool. Especially this one.
http://www.robotfrank.com/
Don't believe the type!
Boo hiss.
That robot looks nothing like Frank and, unlike Miss Repliee Q1Expo, its lacks a life-like silicone surface. What, I ask, is the point in that?!
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 15:09:09
Robots are cool. Especially this one.
http://www.robotfrank.com/
Don't believe the type!
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| danjersey |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:52:53
it would have to be self cleaning, guys just let stuff go after awile and a unkept android would be a horror. i see it becoming the next home gym with dirty laudry piled up on it. it's a story that starts off sad and just gets worse.
"You're constantly in a state of becoming" |
| whoreatthedoor |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:45:17
No, no, Kathryn. You did nothing wrong, but my latter post could have been misunderstood as a response to you.
Or something like that.
El amor es la distancia más larga entre un punto y otro |
| whoreatthedoor |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:42:19
KY??? Is this a Coldplay thing?
Lamest joke ever! Michael, I want my title back!
El amor es la distancia más larga entre un punto y otro |
| kathryn |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:41:26
quote:
Originally posted by whoreatthedoor
Kathryn made my post dirty.
What on earth are you going on about, Xavier? I did nothing to your post. You're the one going on about tongue movements.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:38:57
you'd have a robot that salivates KY
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| whoreatthedoor |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:37:22
quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten
saliva? you mean saline secreted at a life like rate through subtle microtubes in the sides of the soft silicone mouth.
It would be even better if you could choose the quantity and texture of it, don't you think?
[EDIT] I had to add Tre's quote because Kathryn made my post dirty. I mean, even more.
El amor es la distancia más larga entre un punto y otro |
| kathryn |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:35:58
Remember an exit point, too.
Garbage in, garbage out, as you scientists like to say.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:31:08
saliva? you mean saline secreted at a life like rate through subtle microtubes in the sides of the soft silicone mouth.
How romantic!
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| whoreatthedoor |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:24:01
quote:
Originally posted by darwin
That's all in the up and down subroutines.
If you make some nice code in those three subroutines I think it would have great results.
Tongue movements, calculate the accurate saliva proportion and stuff.
El amor es la distancia más larga entre un punto y otro |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:23:46
been a long time huh erebus?
If you invite people who all have the same blood type to a party, but you don't tell them, they'll talk about something else |
| Erebus |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:22:33
That's probably what drove him to robots. |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:19:03
check out this guys ballroom dancing robot
do you ever think he just considered asking a real girl?
If you invite people who all have the same blood type to a party, but you don't tell them, they'll talk about something else |
| whoreatthedoor |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:18:48
I can see some teeth in the first picture.
Have you noticed the position of the right hand?
El amor es la distancia más larga entre un punto y otro |
| kathryn |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:15:37
I'm betting no teeth.
No gag reflex either.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| darwin |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:14:52
quote:
Originally posted by whoreatthedoor
You should define some error constants, darwin. To avoid teeth to hurt someone, for example.
El amor es la distancia más larga entre un punto y otro
That's all in the up and down subroutines. |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:14:03
They're probably flexible silicone teeth rather than hard plastic.
If she has them at all...
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| whoreatthedoor |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:12:47
You should define some error constants, darwin. To avoid teeth to hurt someone, for example.
El amor es la distancia más larga entre un punto y otro |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 08/01/2005 : 14:05:10
does she have teeth?
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