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April 5, 2010 1:33 PM PDT

Androids to bring 'Surrogates' closer to reality?

FROM: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10472696-1.html

by Tim Hornyak

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Japanese engineers have created a female android that's an exact replica of a woman while being cheaper and more compact than earlier models, bringing the futuristic world of the film "Surrogates" closer to reality.
The Geminoid F is an air servo-powered, remote-operated talking humanoid with eye, mouth, head, and shoulder mobility. She was designed by Osaka University's Hiroshi Ishiguro, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, and Kokoro, a Tokyo-based entertainment firm. Copies of Geminoid are to go on sale for about $110,000, Ishiguro was quoted as saying by Agence France-Presse.

Geminoid F (F stands for "female") is a replica of an unnamed model, a woman in her twenties at right in the photo (see more pics here).

The robot is designed to mimic human behavior and possibly serve in roles like receptionist, museum guide, or patient attendant in hospitals, according to Kokoro. She's slated to begin patient communication trials at the University of Tokyo Hospital in May. Kokoro says patients have already reacted favorably.

Compared with Ishiguro's first Geminoid HI-1 robot, in which he replicated himself in android form, Geminoid F has fewer servomotors (only 12 compared with HI-1's 46), meaning it was significantly cheaper to produce.
Kokoro wants to sell 50 Geminoid Fs to museums and hospitals, according to the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper. It has already offered to produce customized android clones to the public for about $225,000 apiece.

Ishiguro's Geminoid HI-1 was unveiled in 2006.

(Credit: Tim Hornyak)

The latest Geminoid also downsizes the system, incorporating the air servo valves and control system into the android itself, and runs off a household power supply. It will still use a small external air compressor.

Cameras and face-tracking software follow the remote operator's behavior, allowing the android to mimic its user in a sort of master-slave relationship via Internet link. Geminoid can't walk, though, and giving locomotion to a robot running on an air servo system is a major challenge.

Geminoid F's female appearance and more natural smile with lifelike teeth are designed to put people at ease. In a reflection of Kokoro's plans to market the system overseas, the model on which Geminoid is based is one-quarter non-Japanese, ostensibly giving her a more universal look. The robot is also quite fashionable, sporting duds by designer Junko Koshino.

At a press conference in Osaka, Geminoid spoke to reporters and demonstrated how she can be remote-controlled. "It feels like I'm over there speaking to you," her model said, speaking through the android.

No doubt it will take time for people to get used to Geminoids if they ever become a viable product. When I attended the unveiling of the first generation back in 2006, I spoke to Ishiguro through his clone. Conversing with the doppelganger was a bizarre sensation, but I felt compelled to maintain eye contact with the android while chatting.

We're neurologically hardwired to react to these puppets as though they're human beings. Once they start walking around, things will get very interesting.

(Via IEEE Spectrum, Mainichi Shimbun)

Crave freelancer Tim Hornyak is the author of "Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots." He has been writing about Japanese culture and technology for a decade. E-mail Tim.

by Mergatroid Mania April 5, 2010 2:23 PM PDT
For the life of me I can't think of a single reason why anyone would want to purchase one of these (sort of like the iPad).
Of course, people will purchase them even if they're useless just as a status symbol (sort of like the iPad).
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by ObsceneZen April 5, 2010 3:17 PM PDT
Once voice processing software is good enough, think of all the irritable receptionists, ticket salesmen, etc., it would replace. It wouldn't be for domestic use, obviously... not until they come out with a Marylin Monroe bot (Futurama reference lol).
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by londo58 April 5, 2010 3:11 PM PDT
If they got the price below 10K I could see people using them
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by DarkHawke April 5, 2010 3:13 PM PDT
Good Christ, that's scary! The subtile, almost imperceptible changes in expression that thing can mimic are virtually dead-on! 'Course, the thing has yet to walk and doubtless there will come a point in any conversation you had with it that it would falter and reveal its true nature, but this is like version 1.0 of the kind of androids we've seen in SF for forever! Scary stuff, kiddies!
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by BlutoNYC April 5, 2010 3:15 PM PDT
It's just a matter of time before the sex version comes out. One day prostitutes will be out of business. LOL
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by SenorFrog April 5, 2010 4:42 PM PDT
Sorry BlutoNYC but I've just returned from a trip to the future and it's not as great as you might think. The Microsoft based models are really bloated and continually freeze up, the Apple models are super thin and won't do anything pornographic, and the Linux models are pretty skanky with all their open source.
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by tux_warrior April 5, 2010 3:17 PM PDT
I don't even care if they move all I want to know is, can they sit in a meeting so I don't have to? Maybe make the head nod every once in a while and mumble uh huh.
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by GKrynen April 5, 2010 4:16 PM PDT
Once again I would like to point out the obvious. The world is already short on employment positions, if we replace a no brainer job like receptionist with a robot then that many more jobs will be gone. No money earned means no money spent. I sincerely hope the world governments either figure out how to make a Star Trek economy work, or decide to ban the use of technology to replace humans in situations that are clearly not dangerous.
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by EvanSei April 5, 2010 5:27 PM PDT
I wish they would stop making these things they creep me out.
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