Leading humanoid roboticist unveils new android
One of the world’s leading humanoid roboticist has unveiled a new android which is modeled on a 10-year-old boy, although no-one specific. (See video below.)
Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Wakayama University, Japan, has previously made a robot called Geminoid that looked exactly like himself and another modeled on a young woman, which he called Erica.
The new robot, called Ibuki, and the IEEE has given us all permission to panic over it.
While some would say it’s a technical achievement, others would say it’s downright creepy.
Ibuki gets around on wheels but “can fake walking”, meaning it looks like it’s walking if you view the top half.
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What its application might be is uncertain, but this is more of a research robot rather than a commercial one.
But according to a story on TechWorld.com, Professor Ishiguro “wants a humanoid future” when humans and androids live together.
“The more human we make robots, the more we will accept them in our daily lives,” he said.