Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro unveiled his body-double robot – the Geminoid android, at the Global Futures 2045 International Congress in New York. Director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University, Ishiguro, has also developed another Geminoid – a fashionably dressed female android, a Telenoid – a bot designed to appear ageless and genderless and the Elfoid that functions as a mobile phone.
Today, everyone talks to the “little black boxes” of their smartphones, Ishiguro said, so he wanted to personalize and humanize the devices. At the end of Ishiguro’s talk, his robotic double spoke up, saying that next time, it would give a much better presentation than the real shiguro!
Ishiguro has also taken his robots on the road as part of a travelling “android theatre,” where they act out scenes with human-like expressions.
The roboticist also made the “Telenoid,” a pillow-like bot deliberately designed to appear ageless and genderless so that people can project an imagined face onto its neutral appearance.
Ishiguro has tested the Telenoid among the elderly in Denmark, who took to it very well, he said.
Another of Ishiguro’s inventions is the “Elfoid” — a smaller version of the Telenoid that functions as a mobile phone.
Today, everyone talks to the “little black boxes” of their smartphones, Ishiguro said, so he wanted to personalise and humanise the devices.
At the end of Ishiguro’s talk, his robotic double spoke up, saying that next time, it would give a much better presentation than the real Ishiguro.
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