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Holy crap! Look at this!!! First Toyota...then this. Man...my hats off to the Japanese!!!

Too nuttty....although I'm oddly turned on...... :hihi:

Looks like the Japanese are big on hand shakes...or handjobs...one or the other.

Seriously though...this is nuts..

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4714135.stm

Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet devised - a "female" android called Repliee Q1.

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.

Professor Hiroshi Ishiguru of Osaka University says one day robots could fool us into believing they are human.

Repliee Q1 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 31 actuators in her upper body, powered by a nearby air compressor, programmed to allow her to move like a human.

   
We have found that people forget she is an android while interacting with her
Prof Hiroshi Ishiguru
"I have developed many robots before," Repliee Q1's designer, Professor Ishiguru, 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 Q1, Professor Ishiguru 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.

Repliee Q1 (Professor Hiroshi Ishiguru)
Scientists think that, one day, robots could fool us into believing they were human
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 Q1 moves.

She can be designed to follow the movement of a human wearing motion sensors or to act independently.

"Repliee Q1 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 Ishiguru 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."

If you had replaced "Japanese" with engineers, I would (correctly) assume it would be the Japanese to do it. They supposedly have such a problem with a low birthrate, they want to develop robot workers. They're serious about it, while we know robots are only good for blowing each other up in geeky tv shows.  :hihi:

Reminds me of the movie, Stepford Wives.

I don't understand the purpose of it. It seems like a novelty more than anything.

It creeps me out, all this Blade Runner shit.

oh excellent, Q1 is ready  : ok:

This reminds me of the terminator, so we know how this will end! ;D

yeah I've thought that before

NOT TOYOTA slc... IT WAS HONDA.... ;)

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and all info about it can be found here

http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/


edit: stupid pictures are translucent........

trust the japanese to invent a female robot, we all know what direction the development is going to go...

just think, 20 years time you will all either be obsolete or have multiple robot slaves...oh joy...

It's not as creepy as crones no I mean human clones.

It remains me of one of my mum's friends who is japanese.

Chobits.

it's a japanese anime series where almost every guy has a robot Barbie girl like the one above.  They cook, clean, and store all your data!  I guess the japanese really dig the wife + harddrive combo.

Their culture bemuses me sometimes.

lol ya.. im all about a robot looking like a robot... hence teh honda one.. thats cool by me..... but if your going to make one that looks like  a chick.... she might as well be hot.... and well she might as welll know how to clean/cook..... and by god if its going to go that far..... it better know how to fall to its knees...... :hihi:


seriouslt id rather that they not go to "humanoid" form..... but remain something of a machine look.... no blade runner then ;)


lol

That's no other than the Pygmalion complex, innit?