How life like...(cough)
Posted on 11/30/2006 8:37:05 PM PST by annie laurie
South Korean scientists are working on a new-generation robot resembling a human which will be able to walk the walk as well as talk the talk, one of the team said Thursday.
The first walking "android" will make its debut within two to three years, said So Byung-Rok, one of the team of researchers at the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology.
Androids present particular technological challenges in cramming complicated modules, motors and actuators into a life-size body.
The team has already developed two android prototypes designed to look like a Korean woman in her early 20s, which can hold hold a conversation, make eye contact, and express anger, sorrow and joy.
The latest version, named EveR2-Muse, was unveiled last month at a robot exhibition in Seoul.
She made her debut billed as "the world's first android entertainer" singing a new Korean ballad "I Will Close My Eyes For You."
"Standing like a human, she can sing a song and move her arms, hips and knees to the rhythm although she cannot lift her feet or walk yet," So told AFP in reference to EveR2-Muse.
"We are now working to improve the motion and upgrade intelligence so that next-generation androids can walk like a human, engage in more sophisticated conversations and have a wider range of facial expressions."
Researchers at Japan's Osaka University unveiled their own female android capable of speaking and making gestures but So said it was only mobile from the waist up.
"We are using electric motors built underneath the silicon skin but a Japanese android uses air pressure to move. The Japanese android moves faster from the waist up than ours does but it needs a giant air tank attached to it," he said.
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How life like...(cough)
Heh. Yes, definitely a bit of journalistic hyperbole there ;-)
"The team has already developed two android prototypes designed to look like a Korean woman in her early 20s, which can hold hold a conversation, make eye contact, and express anger, sorrow and joy."
The next big breakthrough in the sex trade...
Oh boy, the things I could say here.........LOL
Where's my copy of the TZ ep "I Sing the Body Electric"?
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
(The Internet was already created and being used by the time Gore was elected to Congress.)
>although she cannot lift her feet or walk yet
Both Honda and Sony have walking robots.
amazing...the thing is it will move fast now...once some of the basics are overcome...
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i cannot wait for them to get full armor and range finding equipment for the weapons systems that are coming, much like the m1a abrams tanks...
that would make powdered guns obsolete, then maybe we could get some cool emp weapons and or lasers
plus it would be nice to watch the dems running around the woods at election time with a plasma rifle explaining how they hunt ducks and deer with it... and that its not for self defense
"our next version will enable her grab and deliver a cold beer to her owner, find the TV remote, and, based on overwhelming feedback, we are also going to eliminate the previous ability of being able to engage in conversation."
I'll say it.
There are a huge number of excess males in China. 8 figures worth. That's a huge market, for those who get these things to the serious sex toy stage.
It's probably China's only hope to not have their country fall apart in the next 25 years, due to the social stresses their societal gender imbalance will create, on top of all the other stresses.
But will it do windows?
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