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axxxr Posts: > 500

Guess which one is the robot?

Nationalgeographic

Repliee Q1 appeared yesterday at the 2005 World Expo in Japan, where she gestured, blinked, spoke, and even appeared to breathe. Shown with co-creator Hiroshi Ishiguru of Osaka University, the android is partially covered in skinlike silicone. Q1 is powered by a nearby air compressor, and has 31 points of articulation in its upper body.

Internal sensors allow the android to react "naturally." It can block an attempted slap, for example. But it's the little, "unconscious" movements that give the robot its eerie verisimilitude: the slight flutter of the eyelids, the subtle rising and falling of the chest, the constant, nearly imperceptible shifting so familiar to humans.

Surrounded by machines that draw portraits, swat fast-moving balls, and snake through debris, Q1 is only one of the showstoppers at the expo's Prototype Robot Exposition, which aims to showcase Japan's growing role in the robotics industry.

But given Q1's reported glitch-related "spasms" at the expo, it may be a while before androids are escorting tour groups or looking after children—which may be just as well. "When a robot looks too much like the real thing, it's creepy," Hiroshi told the Associated Press.

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Posted: 2005-06-12 12:18:18
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haynesycop Posts: > 500

amazing is all i will say

unbelieveable

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[ This Message was edited by: miss copperfield on 2005-06-12 11:48 ]
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Posted: 2005-06-12 12:47:18
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ten18 Posts: > 500

very creepy axxxr

makes me wonder if robots will someday become too advanced...
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Posted: 2005-06-12 16:47:00
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axxxr Posts: > 500

Thats what worries me,just makes me think of the AI and matrix scenaro...few more years down the line i think we would have developed near peferct replicas of ourselves.
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Posted: 2005-06-12 16:50:56
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axxxr Posts: > 500

Check out the videos here:

The example of humanlike motions
example 2
The idling motions

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Posted: 2005-06-14 16:05:06
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jagger2k Posts: > 500

kool, i can imagine people asking how to flash the firmware, lol.
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Posted: 2005-06-14 20:29:30
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Qoastro Posts: 447

Do you think that we can have small robots with built in phones in a near (far) future?

If someone calls you your phone starts to chase you

Or when you cant find your phone you just shout:

"Ellen! I want to send an sms, come here quickly!"

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Posted: 2005-06-14 20:43:03
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