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Walking, talking living doll: Japanese scientists unveil female android.
Daily Mail via The Woodward Report ^
| April 4, 2009
| Anny Shaw
Posted on 04/04/2010 6:09:44 PM PDT by honestabe010
Japanese professor Hiroshi Ishiguro yesterday unveiled a female android that can laugh and smile as it mimics a person's expressions.
Using a motion-capture system, the robot, called Geminoid TMF, can move its rubber face to imitate a smile, a toothy grin, and a grim look with furrowed brows. Prof Ishiguro, a professor at Osaka University, developed the android with a team of researchers together with Japan's robot maker Kokoro.
Geminoid TMF was modelled on a young Japanese woman, who was present at the unveiling today. 'I felt like I had a twin sister,' the woman said afterwards.
The developers said they expected the robot to be eventually used in real-life situations, such as in hospitals.
'We've already got some data showing that the robot gave patients psychological security by nodding and smiling at them, when patients were checked on by doctors,' Satoko Inoue, spokeman for Kokoro, told Dawn.com...
(Excerpt) Read more at thewoodwardreport.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: androids; japan; robots
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To: honestabe010
Geminoid TMF was modelled on a young Japanese woman, who was present at the unveiling today. 'I felt like I had a twin sister,' the woman said afterwards. Yeah, it's interesting to her now. But just wait until the adroid decides to kill her so it can take over her life.
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posted on
04/04/2010 6:36:47 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
(Does not play well with others.)
To: mountn man
Lol
To: AceMineral
An android is a machine that looks like a human being.You mean like the one in the WH?
To: mountn man
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
We still have no way of telling it apart from Nanzi Pelose. The lifelike one will be the android. ;-)
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posted on
04/04/2010 6:48:12 PM PDT
by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
To: maine-iac7; MineralMan
You mean like the one in the WH?
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posted on
04/04/2010 6:48:38 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(I hate B(ig) H(ead) Obama)
To: honestabe010
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posted on
04/04/2010 6:50:01 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: honestabe010
Just as long as it never learns to say, "Half, Eddie!"
Mark
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posted on
04/04/2010 6:50:11 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: 6SJ7
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posted on
04/04/2010 6:58:35 PM PDT
by
stylecouncilor
(What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
To: All
Still no pic of Julie Newmar? Considering the title of the article, that’s a major oversight.
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posted on
04/04/2010 7:00:30 PM PDT
by
william clark
(Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: honestabe010
There are some impressive advancements in android robotics. Strong muscle movements can be made with pistons, spraying a small amount of concentrated hydrogen peroxide on a catalyst.
Weak, smooth and flowing muscle motions can be done with rubber tubes wrapped in a fiber sheath, inflated or deflated with air. Bunched together, they can act much like facial muscle groups, and their opposing muscle groups.
A big advance is in subdividing the “brain” of the robot into three parts. Only the “primitive” part is actually inside the robot’s body. The “mid-brain”, handling much more complicated functions, are in local computers. Then the “upper brain” is an Internet connection to a central computer.
To: ctdonath2
Did someone say "Android?"
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posted on
04/04/2010 7:04:47 PM PDT
by
Mister Muggles
(.Seattle: A city full of Liberal men with vaginas.)
To: william clark
All you had to do was ask:
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posted on
04/04/2010 7:07:29 PM PDT
by
Lucretia Borgia
(Never bring a knife to a gun battle. Never bring a community organizer to lead your army.)
To: honestabe010
"Harcourt Fenton Mudd, you drunk, good-for-nothing..."
To: Charlespg
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posted on
04/04/2010 7:16:59 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
To: honestabe010
"Now that's MY kinda WOMAN!!!
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posted on
04/04/2010 7:19:24 PM PDT
by
The Duke
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
Ahh, you beat me to it!!!
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posted on
04/04/2010 7:21:15 PM PDT
by
gogogodzilla
(Live free or die!)
To: honestabe010
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posted on
04/04/2010 7:24:51 PM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(Stephen Decatur: you want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
To: Nonstatist
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posted on
04/04/2010 7:25:41 PM PDT
by
Touch Not the Cat
(Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
To: honestabe010
The prettiest android ever was Andrea on the original Star Trek.
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posted on
04/04/2010 7:28:00 PM PDT
by
yarddog
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