Written By: Ken HulseySources: i09.com / Donald Farmer / Avery Guerra
Everyone knows that the Japanese are years ahead of everyone else when it comes to computers and robotics, but I don't think anyone knew that they were this far ahead?
Two different stories have been brought to my attention about human-like androids that have been built in Japan. One is a life-size female robot that can move and talk on it's own and another is a gigantic baby that mimics human infant behavior. Two separate stories that are sure to convince you that we are much closer to human androids than anybody expected.
Last summer the movie, "Cyborg She" (My Girlfriend Is A Cyborg) starring Haruka Ayase was huge hit at the Japanese box office. The film was just one of several fantasy films about a robotic girlfriend that have been produced over the last decade in that country. Who would have believed that you would have been able to buy a real cyborg girlfriend before the DVD for the film even hit the shelves? In this case reality happened almost faster than fantasy.
Yes, indeed for about $200,000 you can own your very own walking, talking "HPR-4C" female robot.
The female robot HPR-4C (Called a Gynoid.......really?) was developed by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and unveiled to the public at a March 16th press conference. The developers of this new robot hope to have it modeling clothing at an upcoming fashion show, once it has been deemed safe enough to walk a catwalk with 'real' women.
In a related story, another Japanese company has designed and built a gigantic robot baby that can imitate human expression on its own.
Here is the skinny on the robot baby:
The robot can record emotional expressions using eye-cameras, then memorise and match them with physical sensations, and cluster them on its circuit boards. The professor, also a member of the Japanese Society of Baby Science, said his team has made progress on other fronts since first presenting CB2 to the world in 2007.
In the two years since then, he said, CB2 has taught itself how to walk with the aid of a human and can now move its body through a room quite smoothly, using 51 "muscles" driven by air pressure. In coming decades, Asada expects science will come up with a "robo species" that has learning abilities somewhere between those of a human and other primate species such as the chimpanzee.
Okay, now that is kinda scary! It looks like the end is near for us humans. The machines will take over soon. You have to admit we had a good run.
Check out this quote: "Japanese scientists predict that, at their current rate of robotics technology, they expect to have a humanoid soccer team capable of winning the World Cup by 2050."
That's how it will start, the robots will start kicking our asses at sports, then they will become better at sex and making omelets.
We are doomed!
Here is the video evidence:
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