Robot?

[Demosthenez]

Japanese develop 'female' android
By David Whitehouse
Science editor, BBC News website

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 Ishiguro 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
Prof Hiroshi Ishiguro

"I have developed many robots before," Repliee Q1's designer, Professor Ishiguro, 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 Ishiguro 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 Ishiguro 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."

http://news.bbc.co.u..sci/tech/4714135.stm

GOOD FUCKIN LORD!! That thing is so real looking and it functions at a pretty decent level it loos like to. The only thing it is missing is fine motor control and other things that make it less jerky. Oh, and it looks like the ability to walk : /

But that damn thing is so real looking it is scary. To think in 20-30 years time robots could be walking with us and we would never be able to tell the difference if the continuing progress in robotics is kept up. Kinda scary, kinda cool to think about.

[Demosthenez]

Crap, forgot the pic. It is in the link I provided, but it is better to just put it here I think. I swear to God, you will see it and will think I am shitting you. It is that real looking.

[Yoogle]

I robot, or Terminator anyone?

[The-Strange-One]

That's incredible! What an amazing technological achievement! And to think they could be walking amongst us someday!

[The-Strange-One]

Oh yeah I forgot to ask:

What would happen if they put an artificial intelligence programme in that android? Will it act like us? Or something else...?

[Pre-K-Prostitute]

A japanese horebot? Pfft... I wanna see a bill cosby bot. Wake me up when building sentient robots costs less billions of teh dollars.

[capn-g]

Deapite all claims made so far, I have yet to see footage of this thing actually moving. I bet it's obvious it's a machine after only five seconds of contact. It's basically a very well constructed animatronic but it's hardly an "Android".

[Sugary-Cupcakes]

i saw the japanse Computer show thing a couple months ago and thier was a robot that was like the one you described except for it was a man and it could talk

having robots around is going to be a problem but we are going to laugh right before the robots kill us not only for irony but that we'd been predicting the day for decades

[Koufuyo]

Japanese technology is so, sugoi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Goes do show you, what one can do with a little effort. I heard drumor that bandai is doing a Doremon model. I also wish they do other monster models for children.

[Koufuyo]

At 8/1/05 10:26 AM, A-Twon25 wrote: i saw the japanse Computer show thing a couple months ago and thier was a robot that was like the one you described except for it was a man and it could talk

having robots around is going to be a problem but we are going to laugh right before the robots kill us not only for irony but that we'd been predicting the day for decades

Why is that everyone's afraid of robots? Ridiculous american cinema is inserting fear into the masses due toi the fact that this nation is built upon war.

[SuperRico]

well i'd say its a real person but the hands are all disgusting and crap not, my hats off to the jappenese for yet another brillant technoligical acheviment

[Demosthenez]

At 8/1/05 09:45 AM, capn_g wrote: Deapite all claims made so far, I have yet to see footage of this thing actually moving. I bet it's obvious it's a machine after only five seconds of contact. It's basically a very well constructed animatronic but it's hardly an "Android".

I saw a video of it. It give you the link but apparently you have to be a subscriber to Comast to watch it : /

It can respond to questions, move (rather jerkily), it looks like it breathes, can blink, moves mouth realistically when it talks, probably some other crap I dont know.

It is very obvious it is a robot if you can see the way it moves. It is just the fact how advanced it is. If you were maybe sitting down with it at a table and you didnt know better, you may think its a real person for a good time.

I could easily see something like this moving smoothly, having no one be able to tell its a robot in 20-30 years.

At 8/1/05 01:16 PM, SuperRico wrote: well i'd say its a real person but the hands are all disgusting and crap not,

It has gloves on.

[Buckdich]

I can't wait till I get my very on Japanese sex robot!
But seriously, i believe robots and this sort of thing is great technology and should be explored into.

[specimen56]

I'd hit that...
Ahem..
Sorry....

Anyways, I doubt it moves like a human...
And I doubt we'll have robots that look exactly like humans anytime soon, notwithin our lifetimes anyways... The skin looks too... fake... Like a bad face-lift...
(http://ed-02.ams.eng..Q1/ReplieeQ1_eng.ht
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[PhysicsMafia]

At 8/1/05 07:56 AM, The_Light wrote: I robot, or Terminator anyone?

aslong as we have dogs we will be able to tell them apart from humans, and we have the films to find their weakness and arnie has even more power now that hes a seantor. we will be sweet

[Demosthenez]

At 8/1/05 04:06 PM, specimen56 wrote: Anyways, I doubt it moves like a human...

It doesnt. But the fact is robots have come from nothing to being able to hold some semblance of a conversation, move (jerkily), breath, blink, move mouth somewhat realisticlly, etc. What has happened even in just the past 10 years is amazing. What WILL happen within the next 30 years will be even more amazing.

And I doubt we'll have robots that look exactly like humans anytime soon, notwithin our lifetimes anyways... The skin looks too... fake... Like a bad face-lift...

With makeup on and other things to mask the unbenievability of the skin (it really isnt THAT bad), I can almost guarantuee you if you were just looking at the robot of no idea it wasnt a human and you didnt see it move much, I can guarantuee you you would think its a human.

[Buckdich]

At 8/1/05 04:06 PM, specimen56 wrote: I'd hit that...
Ahem..
Sorry....

Anyways, I doubt it moves like a human...
And I doubt we'll have robots that look exactly like humans anytime soon, notwithin our lifetimes anyways... The skin looks too... fake... Like a bad face-lift...
(http://ed-02.ams.eng..Q1/ReplieeQ1_eng.ht

m)

IWant to know what's funny. A artist painted a picture of what the future would look like in 2000 (he drew it in the 20s or 30s). It striked me as strange was that
1. He assumed we were still using properllar airplanes as a mean as transportation instead of jet powered craft.
2. The buildings were all made of stone and other heavy materials use back in those days, instead of the steel and lighter materials which were much stronger.
3. The cars also looked so primitive = )

I am not saying this artist was a foremost expert of what the future was to become, but it shows that when people think of the future, they tend to compare it with the present. Also, seeing how we attained small distance flight from the wright bros early in the 20th century and in only about 50-70 years, we are beginning to land on the moon.

Another thing, the pace at which technology is develpoing is growing ever quicker so the 50-70 years it took for us to go from primitive flying to moon walking think about the things that can happen 50-70 years from now!

iIt tickles my heart just thinking about it.

[specimen56]

At 8/1/05 04:21 PM, Buckdich wrote: IWant to know what's funny. A artist painted a picture of what the future would look like in 2000 (he drew it in the 20s or 30s). It striked me as strange was that
iIt tickles my heart just thinking about it.

I don't know, I'm a skeptic on how far science will take us very quickly- we seem to be slowing down an awful lot.
Take the internet- most wonderous thing ever most would say. Find information. Talk to people on the otherside of the world... Find every kind of pornography conceivable. Discover new ways of making yourself hurl with a picture.
Recently science seems to have slowed a bit. By now we should be bouncing around on the moon, with robots to do everything for us, electricity so cheap you couldn't actually measure it, Blue skies as far as the eye can see and all idea of war behind us.
I agree, it will all happen, but I'm not so optimistic that it'll happen anytime soon...

At 8/1/05 04:14 PM, FAB0L0US wrote:

At 8/1/05 04:06 PM, specimen56 wrote: Anyways, I doubt it moves like a human...

It doesnt. But the fact is robots have come from nothing to being able to hold some semblance of a conversation, move (jerkily), breath, blink, move mouth somewhat realisticlly, etc. What has happened even in just the past 10 years is amazing. What WILL happen within the next 30 years will be even more amazing.

With makeup on and other things to mask the unbenievability of the skin (it really isnt THAT bad), I can almost guarantuee you if you were just looking at the robot of no idea it wasnt a human and you didnt see it move much, I can guarantuee you you would think its a human.

With makeup on you can make anything look human (must resist... saying anything... about... mates... ex...).
From all the pictures I've seen, I don''t think it looks too real at the moment. Maybe one day it will, but I really don't know.

[Buckdich]

Science slowing down? You got to be kidding me! We are progressing further in science than we ever had before.

[LegendaryLukus]

Yeh I suppose its fairly impressive.

Couldve done with a rocket launcher instead of an arm tho. ooo and glowing red eyes

[specimen56]

At 8/1/05 05:13 PM, Buckdich wrote: Science slowing down? You got to be kidding me! We are progressing further in science than we ever had before.

We're going in fluxuations. We are progressing, but not at the same speed as we were. A lot of science is moving forwards in theories, but not in physical action...

[Buckdich]

I hope she knows how to cook and clean.

[Jimsween]

Fuck.. a FEMALE robot?

It's just going to cry alot and get its period.

[Hyperion]

Between this android and robotic reinforcments for the legs of crippled people (also from japan) how long before we go from the information age to the robotic age?

Seems the 21st century isn't such a disapointment after all.

[Demosthenez]

At 8/1/05 05:23 PM, specimen56 wrote: We're going in fluxuations. We are progressing, but not at the same speed as we were. A lot of science is moving forwards in theories, but not in physical action...

Do you have anything to back up your assertion that the pace at which we are acquiring new technologies is slowing? Nothing groundshattering has happened in the past 15 or so years, but just 20 years ago robotics started to take float, not to mention the internet . Nanotechnology is exploding. We have a scramjet that can go 6000 mph. We are slowing fazing out the humans from war. There is REAL optical camoflauge being tested. And the solider of the future, damn, just look at that suit the army is planning for it. It is damn amazing. Not to mention stem cell and cloning techniques and a crap load of other shit I cant think of.

Science is definately not slowing by any means.

[Gunter45]

As long as Arnold is still alive those robots don't stand a chance.

[The-Dran]

If they are going to make Robots, they should make them be more like Bender and Sonny (with a personality and the ability to not wish to be screwed around with) and less like those robots that are just designed to replace human low class and mid class jobs.

[Jimsween]

At 8/1/05 11:40 PM, FAB0L0US wrote: Do you have anything to back up your assertion that the pace at which we are acquiring new technologies is slowing?

Processor development has had no advancements in the past 5 years.

[Demosthenez]

At 8/2/05 12:15 AM, Jimsween wrote: Processor development has had no advancements in the past 5 years.

Im not exactly familiar with them to much. But, hell, aint computers faster? And what about that stuff that IBM is gonna do with the PS3? Isnt that a new kind of processor?

And there is a lot more things going on than just processors. Another reason nothing may has happened with them is what needs fixing or making better with them, ya know?

[BrooklynBrett]

they really need a video of "her" moving to see if it looks natural or not.