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The world's first robot 'actress': Talking android fitted with a human face is given star role in Japanese nuclear disaster film
Android called 'Geminoid F' is the co-star in the Japanese film 'Sayonara' Designed to look and act like a human with rubber 'skin' and woman's face The robot is equipped with motorised actuators and controlled remotely
By Julian Robinson for MailOnline
Published: 22:29 GMT, 1 November 2015 | Updated: 00:25 GMT, 2 November 2015
Japanese film-makers have created a robot movie star - by casting an android 'actress' in a lead role.
The robot co-stars alongside a human in the film 'Sayonara' set in the aftermath of a deadly nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan.
The android, called Geminoid F, was designed to look and act like a human with rubber 'skin' and a woman's face - but it is unable to walk and is wheeled around in the film.
Geminoid F - or Leona in the film - is referred to by director Koji Fukada as an 'actress,' and the android is even listed as a member of the cast in the end credits.
While robots have featured prominently in many films, most are played by real actors or created using visual effects.
Geminoid F was produced by Hiroshi Ishiguro, a renowned robot designer at Osaka University in western Japan, whose androids come with a £776,000 price tag.
Geminoid F was cheaper - just £72,000, which Ishiguro hopes may take the technology closer to the mainstream.
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“The cool part of the movie is where the gynoid gets a job assembling Toyotas.”
The sequel has it transitioning into a gasoline pump named Bruce.
What a coincidence - so were the first Terminators.
I’ve been wundrin how long it takes before they come up with a perfect simulacrum of Harrison Ford?
What exactly we looking at, like Star Wars 17?
Is transistorsister a new ‘gender’ classification?
I saw a Twilight Zone episode like that once, a guy was sent to a barren planet as punishment and the supplies crew left him with a female robot companion.
Hymie in Get Smart predates this by decades.
I want a sexbot, At least I have an off switch when Im finished so I dont have to listen to her anymore LMAO.
Make me a samich you bish
You don’t like to cuddle?
LOL
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