Android Robot - Robot in the image of humans...

An android robot looking like a human being was unveiled on the eve of the Children’s Day in Korea by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Energy.
 


The android was named as EveR-1, the combination of Eve and Robot.

EveR-1 is the second android that can move the whole upper waist following Actroid developed in Japan.
 

While Actroid was introduced with a separated camera for image recognition, EveR-1 has it in the eyes and can express more natural facial expression with less number of motors.

EveR-1 is 160cm tall and weighs 50kg. It has the face and physical characteristics of an ordinary Korean woman. The upper waist is moved by 35 ultra tiny electric motors and the facial expressions, behaviors and appearance is just like a human being. It can distinguish human faces and look into the eyes of people. It also can make short conversation as the voice and the lips were made in sync with each other.

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An Interesting Android Robot from Japan

Geminoid is a remote-control doppelganger droid designed by and modeled after Hiroshi Ishiguro, professor at Osaka University and researcher at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories.

In Latin, gemin means “twin” or “double,” while –oid is a suffix indicating a “likeness to something else.” Hiroshi Ishiguro would say that his Geminoid is like a twin. The body is a copy of Ishiguro’s, and the shape of Geminoid’s skull was created based on MRI scans of Ishiguro’s head. And Geminoid shares some of his mannerisms.

Geminoid’s body, which was produced by Kokoro, makers of the Actroid line of fembots, has 46 degrees of freedom and is driven by a system of air compressors. The skin consists of soft, silicone rubber. Confined to a chair at the moment, the android is unable to stand up and move about on his own. Communication and power cables exit his rear end and snake through the shaft of the chair out of sight. It took 6 months of work to develop the body and about 2 to 3 months to develop the software.

One of the purposes for creating Geminoid is to explore the concept of tele-existence — to figure out what is needed in order to copy an actual human’s “presence” so that he or she may exist in two places at once. “I wonder how possible it is to separate one’s inner self and outer self, to create distance between one’s body and soul,” Ishiguro says.