Back in 2008 Japanese professor Hiroshi Ishiguro created a robot in his own image with the aid of robot manufacturing company Kokoro. The result was called Geminoid, and looked very realistic, but not perfect. It could display facial emotion and be controlled remotely.
Nearly two years on and that robot design has been updated, but this time in the image of a young Japanese woman. The new robot carries the name Geminoid F.
Looking even more realistic than the original, Geminoid F uses 12 actuators and air pressure in order to be able to smile and show other human-like emotions on its face. It can also be synchronized to a real human for an even more realistic experience.
The new robot is expected to be used for customer-facing situations such as manning the front desk at a hospital. Professor Ishiguro is attempting to mimick the facial emotions of a human and put real humans at ease, but admits there is still some way to go before robots are good enough to fool us:
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.
You can see the original Geminoid robot in the professor’s own image in the video below:
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