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Shogun Gunner
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Potomac Falls, Virginia
Oct 2000
time: 00:37
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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.
We have found that people forget she is an android while interacting with her
"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.
Scientists think that, one day, robots could fool us into believing they were human
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." |
Okay, this stuff is getting a bit creepy (real doll?). One must wonder about the motives of Professor Ishiguru. 
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mrmitchell
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"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."
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Now we discover why the Prof built her.
I bet Repliee Q2 has DDs.
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shawnmmcc
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http://www.apolyton.net/forums/show...threadid=135918
Read the thread, and download the 66MB video. When the android is communicating, she/it comes accross as a moderately retarded individual. Creating an gynoid (not a bad term) for bedroom use, with limited movement and a tether for power should not be too difficult.
Couple that with heuristic, or learning programs, and you should be able to get a gynoid that is capable of both doggy-style and the missionary position without much difficulty, ditto for side by side, etc. The only position that would present a substantial challenge would be the gynoid on top, due to balance and feedback issues.
The critical aspect is cost. If you can get a basic gynoid for the price of an inexpensive car, how many guys do you, or have you known, that during their single period(s) might have considered purchasing one? Remember, she is always available, she is never too sore, nor does she have that monthly "down" time. With the shortage of women in both China and India, and no indications that the attitudes in those societies is going to change, I suspect the development of a gynoid may occur there, as they both have rapidly developing IT industries, and they will have such a need for social stability.
It is most definitely not my cup of tea. However, if just one percent of the population, probably about 3% of the males that would be single and of an appropriate age, in India and China were interested, that becomes a market of over 60 million. That's not an insignicant market. Even if only 10 percent of them can afford it, that is a production run of 6 million. Plus, I seriously doubt a lack of interest among single men among the remaining 4 billion world population.
Legally, it becomes interesting. Suppose a man lost his wife, and wants a gynoid that replicates her? That might even be therapeutic for him. Now what happens if you want it to look like you ex? OK, she can ban that. So you make just a couple of minor cosmetic changes, and get your gynoid to remind you of how things were, or so you can displace your agression towards her on the replica(nt). Then you get religions wanting to ban it, and you have dozens of story plots. SF has been mining this issue for decades.
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28-07-2005 05:40
its wrong and leads to trouble i suspect.
sorry, but i find 'mobility' to be a desirable feature in scuh use 
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