Japanese professor creates uncanny human-like android robots
These robots can talk, act and breathe just like humans and have the potential to act as newscasters and receptionists. They are part of an interactive display at a museum in Japan.
The three android robots include Otonaroid, an adult female android robot; Kodomorid, a human female child robot and Telenoid, a minimally designed robot. The robots are the brainchild of Japanese robotics expert Hiroshi Ishiguro, a professor at Osaka University's Department of Systems Innovation.
The three android robots include Otonaroid, an adult female android robot; Kodomorid, a human female child robot and Telenoid, a minimally designed robot. The robots are the brainchild of Japanese robotics expert Hiroshi Ishiguro, a professor at Osaka University's Department of Systems Innovation. A professor in Japan has created android robots that make the plot of Will Smith's "I, Robot" possible.
The newest exhibition showing at The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, titled "Android: What is Human?," features life-like robots that have the potential to replace receptionists, newscasts and possibly even sex partners.
Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro poses with a new humanoid robot named "Kodomoroid" as "she" is introduced to the media, at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Technology in Tokyo on June 24, 2014. Japanese scientists unveiled what they said was the world's first news-reading android.
Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro poses with a new humanoid robot named "Kodomoroid" as "she" is introduced to the media, at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Technology in Tokyo on June 24, 2014. Japanese scientists unveiled what they said was the world's first news-reading android.
The first is the Kodomoroid, which can recite news reports from around the world in a variety of voices.
The second robot featured is an adult woman known as Otonaroid. She is meant to act as a robot science communicator. At the exhibit, visitors have the opportunity to talk to her and even control her. Otonaroid can talk, act, blink and breathe.
The newest exhibition showing at The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, titled "Android: What is Human?" features life-like robots that have the potential to replace receptionists, newscasters and possibly even sex partners.
MIRAIKAN
The newest exhibition showing at The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, titled "Android: What is Human?" features life-like robots that have the potential to replace receptionists, newscasters and possibly even sex partners.
The third and final robot at the exhibit is the Telenoid. This robot is meant to omit specific human physical features that enable people to feel like they are with whomever they wish.
Hiroshi Ishiguro, creator of the robots and professor at Osaka University, said that these robots are meant to help humanity understand what it really means to be human.
The newest exhibition showing at The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, titled "Android: What is Human?" features life-like robots that have the potential to replace receptionists, newscasters and possibly even sex partners.
MIRAIKAN
The newest exhibition showing at The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, titled "Android: What is Human?" features life-like robots that have the potential to replace receptionists, newscasters and possibly even sex partners.
The third and final robot at the exhibit is the Telenoid. This robot is meant to omit specific human physical features that enable people to feel like they are with whomever they wish.
Hiroshi Ishiguro, creator of the robots and professor at Osaka University, said that these robots are meant to help humanity understand what it really means to be human.
