Easily one of the world's most beautiful women.
Posted on 07/27/2005 11:51:46 AM PDT by WaveMan
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.
"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.
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."
Reminds me of the movie "West World". As I recall the androids were pretty life like except they couldn't get the hands right. Wonder if they have the same problem here and that is why the gloves.
And here she is ...the "perfect woman" for nerds who need a wife and a life. lol
That is just wrong. Very, very wrong.
Hey! Given your avatar, this might interest you!
interesting, how about as a training tool. Legitimatly educational to teach social interaction for one on one.
It would be no different than the goal oriented tasks of a video game.
The irony: a machine teaching a person how to be human.
Good question.
Easily.
You are catching on to this whole marriage thing quick!
We'll be there soon enough. Takes me back to the early 70s cult film Westworld. Those barmaids were somethin' else ;)
LOL! You're such a romantic.
here's kirk's android babe:
http://www.startrek.com/imageuploads/200306/tos-076-rayna-with-her-creator/320x240.jpg
LOL!!! That is just too funny!
ping
Of course you know 7of9 was a cyborgs, not an adroid.
Data was an android, and hardly dating material, even in a wig.
Would silicone implants be considered fake or real?
The only problem with the robot is that every 30 days it functions randomly and loses a fair amount of steering fluid.
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