In 2009, a university professor in the Japanese city of Osaka and robot designer Hiroshi Ishiguro (Hiroshi Ishiguro) has struck one of their colleagues that has created an android that was almost entirely similar to his creator. The main property, which was put into practice Hiroshi Ishiguro – is the ability of the robot repeats the emotions of the human person. As the current exhibit professor drove the robot with them to various conferences and once confided to him lecturing: the professor himself was behind the podium and delivered a lecture in front of a camera and robot passed all the emotions lecturer listeners.
In April 2010 the indefatigable designer, presented to the public an improved model of his “emotional” robots – Geminoid F.
Based on their pictures, easy to guess that this time the robot Ishiguro looks like a pretty girl of twenty. At a press conference in Osaka (Japan), which was submitted to the robot Geminoid F, and the robot, and his prototype were wearing the same clothes. The girl herself admitted that she felt the birth of his twin sister. The main property, which demonstrated (a-?) Robot Geminoid F remains the same – completely repeat the emotions of the living person. Geminoid F smiles, shakes his head, frowning. Representatives of the company Kokoro, who participated in the creation of the robot with engineers from the group of Professor Hiroshi Ishuguro significantly improved the girl-robot Geminoid F compared with the previous “clone” the professor. In the transfer of emotions on the face is involved, only 12 cylinders, whereas in the original model, there were 50.
Another improvement – compactness. The first robot professor had to complement the big box with compressors and part of e-filling. Robot Geminoid F holds “all in itself.” It can be quite put somewhere near the front door of the bank or the office and make everyone smile within. As such, in fact, has already tested the robot Geminoid F. According to representatives of the company Kokoro smiling robot exerted a positive impression on patients a Japanese hospital, where he experienced during medical methods. So the creators soon will be ready to offer a smiling dark-haired “robotshu” anyone with a desire – for 10 million Japanese yen, which is approximately 110 000 dollars.