klange
March 21st, 2009, 04:22 PM
Seriously, it's been 5 days and no one has posted the HRP-4C?
I'll use the Engadget article because it has some actual readable English text:
Source (http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/16/japans-hrp-4c-fashion-model-robot-unveiled-already-harassed/)
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/03/hrp-4c-fashion-robot.jpg (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/16/business/AS-Japan-Girl-Robot.php)
While that perv in the back is busy shooting HRP-4C's firm buttocks shaped from a glossy Stormtrooper alloy, the rest of us can marvel at the fact that Japan has produced a walking, talking fashion robot. Standing at just over 5-feet tall and 95-pounds, HRP-4C, developed by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, will make its catwalk debut next week at the Tokyo fashion show. The she-bot features 30 motors spread throughout its body with an additional eight motors in its face for expressing general boredom and disgust with the help (http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/31/naomi-campbell-in-court-for-chucking-another-phone-at-maid/). Its main purpose is entertainment and to attract crowds much like its fleshy counterparts -- so don't expect home cooked meals and laundry service should you take the $200,000 robot home. Unfortunately, HRP-4C didn't function as planned today. Reports say that the robot, "kept looking surprised, opening its mouth and eyes in a stunned expression, when the demonstrator had asked it to smile or look angry." Hmm, sounds like a fully functional model-slash-actress to us.Click the link above for a video.
The issues they had at the demonstration were glitches, hopefully something they've fixed by now. The real issue I have with it are the hands, which really put it into the "uncanny valley".
e: Oh, and by the way: It runs Linux.
I'll use the Engadget article because it has some actual readable English text:
Source (http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/16/japans-hrp-4c-fashion-model-robot-unveiled-already-harassed/)
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/03/hrp-4c-fashion-robot.jpg (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/16/business/AS-Japan-Girl-Robot.php)
While that perv in the back is busy shooting HRP-4C's firm buttocks shaped from a glossy Stormtrooper alloy, the rest of us can marvel at the fact that Japan has produced a walking, talking fashion robot. Standing at just over 5-feet tall and 95-pounds, HRP-4C, developed by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, will make its catwalk debut next week at the Tokyo fashion show. The she-bot features 30 motors spread throughout its body with an additional eight motors in its face for expressing general boredom and disgust with the help (http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/31/naomi-campbell-in-court-for-chucking-another-phone-at-maid/). Its main purpose is entertainment and to attract crowds much like its fleshy counterparts -- so don't expect home cooked meals and laundry service should you take the $200,000 robot home. Unfortunately, HRP-4C didn't function as planned today. Reports say that the robot, "kept looking surprised, opening its mouth and eyes in a stunned expression, when the demonstrator had asked it to smile or look angry." Hmm, sounds like a fully functional model-slash-actress to us.Click the link above for a video.
The issues they had at the demonstration were glitches, hopefully something they've fixed by now. The real issue I have with it are the hands, which really put it into the "uncanny valley".
e: Oh, and by the way: It runs Linux.