Geminoid videos
Geminoid is a remote-control doppelganger droid designed by and modeled after Hiroshi Ishiguro, professor at Osaka University and researcher at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories. Robot Watch has released some short videos, which you can see at the links below. Video format is WMV.
Video 1: Ishiguro introduces himself through Geminoid.
Video 2: This segment shows Geminoid’s facial movements. The telepresent Ishiguro explains, “When someone touches Geminoid, it seems as if I am the one being touched.”
Video 3: Geminoid (Ishiguro) doesn’t like it when you touch his face.
Video 4: Geminoid is programmed so that his head continues to move, even when not being specifically controlled.
Video 5: Sitting next to Geminoid, Ishiguro discusses his research concerning “presence.”
In Latin, gemin means “twin” or “double,” while –oid is a suffix indicating a “likeness to something else.” Hiroshi Ishiguro would say that his Geminoid is like a twin. The body is a copy of Ishiguro’s, and the shape of Geminoid’s skull was created based on MRI scans of Ishiguro’s head. And Geminoid shares some of his mannerisms.
Geminoid’s body, which was produced by Kokoro, makers of the Actroid line of fembots, has 46 degrees of freedom and is driven by a system of air compressors. The skin consists of soft, silicone rubber. Confined to a chair at the moment, the android is unable to stand up and move about on his own. Communication and power cables exit his rear end and snake through the shaft of the chair out of sight. It took 6 months of work to develop the body and about 2 to 3 months to develop the software.
One of the purposes for creating Geminoid is to explore the concept of tele-existence — to figure out what is needed in order to copy an actual human’s “presence” so that he or she may exist in two places at once. “I wonder how possible it is to separate one’s inner self and outer self, to create distance between one’s body and soul,” Ishiguro says.
See more photos of Geminoid at the link below.
[Source: Robot Watch]
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Seguo tramite internet l’evoluzione degli androidi actroid, la trovo stupefacente ed sicuramente nel nostro prossimo futuro saranno i nostri collaboratori impeccabili, diligenti ed molto leali nei nostri confronti,
sono cisì intusiasto, che visto drovranno essere venduti come un semplice elettrodomestico, visto che ho un esperienza nel commercio trentennale, ed ho vendto da poco la mia ultima attività commerciale, potrei propormi come venditore e rappresentante nella mia zona, che per dislocazione è ottimale, inquanto si trova in toscana e precisamente a Pisa, in cento italia e pisa a anche un areoporto
internazionale.
Vi porgo i miei sentiti auguri e un sicuro successo del vostro lavoro ringraziando
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la trascrzione è pultroppo scorretta, mi dispiace.
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This is just too cool.
I’d love a “me” look alike.
I suspect that the Japanese will be the first to develop fully autonomous robots, toys etc., like those seen in the movie AI.
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I wonder how long it will be before they mate this new technology with some of the lifesize, realistic looking and feeling (so I’m told), female ’sex’ dolls that you can buy today. Hey, don’t judge me, I’m just saying… You put Nerds and these two products together and somebody’s bound to get a date.
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Great article on that dude’s rape robot.