We are this much closer to living in a world similar to Ghost in the Shell "where being human is a liability, and the line between man and machine has been blurred."
She has flexible silicone for skin rather than hard plastic, and a number of sensors and motors to allow her to turn and react in a human-like manner. She can flutter her eyelids and move her hands like a human. She even appears to breathe.
Repliee Q1 is not like any robot you will have seen before, at least outside of science-fiction movies. She is designed to look human and although she can only sit at present, she has 31 actuators in her upper body, powered by a nearby air compressor, programmed to allow her to move like a human.
Professor Hiroshi Ishiguru of Osaka University says one day robots could fool us into believing they are human.
However, I bet you the first thing this new technology will be used for will be for one of two things. If not both, that is. Either as a better theme park Audio Animatronic or as a sex robot similar to Jude Law's character in AI Gigolo Joe.
Kind of freaky, isn't it?
1 comment:
Yep, freaky is a good word. Seems the sci fi ideas of Terminator and now Battlestar Galactica ("The Cylons look like us") are not that far fetched.
David
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