OMG OMG OMG latest Japanese robot girl

andoroido · Post by **andoroido** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:52 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMi8GNvUBgA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kASRj8Pa9fc
and more by searching for
HRP-4C

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1

Japanese researchers on Monday showed off a robot that will soon strut her stuff down a Tokyo catwalk.
The girlie-faced humanoid with slightly oversized eyes, a tiny nose and a shoulder length hair-do boasts 42 motion motors programmed to mimic the movements of flesh-and-blood fashion models.

"Hello everybody, I am cybernetic human HRP-4C," said the futuristic fashionista, opening her media premiere at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology outside Tokyo.

The fashion-bot is 158 centimetres (five foot two inches) tall, the average height of Japanese women aged 19 to 29, but weighs in at a waif-like 43 kilograms (95 pounds) -- including batteries.

She has a manga-inspired human face but a silver metallic body.

"If we had made the robot too similar to a real human, it would have been uncanny," said one of the inventors, humanoid research leader Shuji Kajita.

"We have deliberately leaned toward an anime style."

The institute said the robot "has been developed mainly for use in the entertainment industry" but is not for sale at the moment.

Hamming it up before photographers and television crews, the seductive cyborg struck poses, flashed bright smiles and pouted sulkily according to commands transmitted wirelessly from journalists via bluetooth devices.

The performance fell short of flawless when she occasionally mixed up her facial expressions -- a mistake the inventors put down to a case of the nerves as a hail of camera shutters confused her sound recognition sensors.

The preview was a warm-up for her appearance at a Tokyo fashion show on March 23.

Like her real-life counterparts, robot model HRP-5C commands a hefty price -- the institute said developing her cost more than 200 million yen (two million dollars).

droidlvr · Post by **droidlvr** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:08 am

Haven't a reason to say go Japan for quite some time now.

Borias · Post by **Borias** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:10 am

visceralpsyche · Post by **visceralpsyche** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:19 am

Definitely still a bit too close to the uncanny valley even though they tried to avoid it.

But hey, Asimo's definitely evolving! I imagine with another 10-20 years we're going to see some really good facsimiles of fembots strutting around with a lot more lithe and grace....

....and a lot more working on more private positions for their owners

Cheers!

Paul

Rotwang · Post by **Rotwang** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:34 am

Holy diodes Batman !!!!!

I'll be in the basement, looking for my jaw ...

FacelessFembot · Post by **FacelessFembot** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:51 am

A related article: http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/03/16/robot.html

code_author · Post by **code_author** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:42 am

We're getting closer!!!

The nice part is that she would never be able to sneak up on you.

AK · Post by AK » Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:07 am

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Borias · Post by **Borias** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:03 am

Stephaniebot · Post by **Stephaniebot** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:20 pm

I have to say I love the 'outfit'

csoloist · Post by **csoloist** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:05 pm

Huzzah!

rabiator · Post by **rabiator** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:43 pm

Now that's a nice step ahead in fembot technology

Next major improvement would be functional hands, so she can actually handle things. Plus the programming to help in the household

There are still a few aesthetic details I'd like to see changed, but I guess those are a matter of taste rather than serious technical problems. Which leaves the price as major problem, the BBC article quotes it at $200.000

Robotka · Post by **Robotka** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:43 am

She look so nice

It would be good if i can become something like that...
But maybe after they made her to walk in high heels

hottori2 · Post by **hottori2** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:17 am

There's no doubt that japanese build full gynoid in some years

Maybe japanese scientists and engineers have gynoidal instict?

gmiceo · Post by **gmiceo** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:00 pm

Wow I wish she had high heels and walked more like FT
http://www.xomba.com/sexy_walk_best_loo ... male_robot

However, outfit and all the rest of the robot are bang on.

udgang99 · Post by **udgang99** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:37 am

OOooohhh Yeeaaaahhhh ... we are getting there, guys! We are getting there! In another 10 years, I do actually believe that we will have fembots that act and move just more like ... well, our fantasies!

I'm impressed that she only weighs about 50 kg, even including batteries (I wonder how long those batteries last, btw). It will be interesting to see how much she will weigh, when she get's a fully movable body (why oh why did they give her dead pointing fingers???).

Bart · Post by **Bart** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:47 pm

Incredible! Love the "space suit". She is so cute

When I get elderly, I want to live in a Japan retirement home!

Compared to her older "brother" HRP-2 it's amazing how much progress they have made, being able to build such a petite walking robot.

Now all she needs are fully functional hands, high heels instead of moon boots and a text-to-speech output instead of pre-recorded phrases (and.. well... a sexual port

) and she would pretty much be the android of my dreams.

I can't wait to see more footage of her.

DJDojo · Post by **DJDojo** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:39 pm

Very cool stuff...so then my RP Honda male bot wasn't that far off..

Doctor Robo · Post by **Doctor Robo** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:24 pm

I saw this on the news the other day. Score one for the ASFR crowd!

csoloist · Post by **csoloist** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 1:58 pm

Page with plenty of pics (a few closeups and diags too) and vids if anyone hadn't seen 'em...

ttp://robot.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/news/2009/03/16/1665.html

darkhorseross · Post by **darkhorseross** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:37 pm

Ah! It is a Lady like this that gives me hope for my later life. I do however need to find a way to get to Japan with cash!

rabiator · Post by **rabiator** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:54 pm

And here's a compilation of the videos on Youtube, in case the other site is overrun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpO57NltoAI

Yosuke · Post by **Yosuke** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:18 am

I like it

! Now skin for the rest of the body!!!

Borias · Post by **Borias** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 5:10 pm

Pagan · Post by **Pagan** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:58 pm

Another video of her surfaced just recently, including some new (and awesome) moves:

http://nicozon.blog64.fc2.com/?video_id=sm8368456

At least the physical part of a fembot seems to make quite some progress...