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UltraBurz · Post by **UltraBurz** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:32 pm

http://www.livescience.com/technology/0 ... robot.html

New Robot Looks Strikingly Human
By Bill Christensen

posted: 28 June 2005
11:20 am ET

The ultra-lifelike robot Repliee Q1 made quite an impression at the 2005 World Expo in Japan. Shown below (at left!) with co-creator Hiroshi Ishiguru, the robot is so lifelike that roboticists may want to start working on a Bladerunner-style Voight-Kampff test now.

(From Ultra-Lifelike Robot Debuts in Japan)

Repliee Q1 has silicone for skin, rather than hard plastic. It has a number of sensors to allow it to react in a manner that appears natural; it appears to flutter its eyelids, chest movements correspond to breathing, and other tiny shifts in position that mimic unconscious human movement. The android can mimic actions made by a human; this helps the robot's movements appear more lifelike. By facing a person with reflective dots placed at key points (like wrist, elbow, palm), the robot can try to match those points on its own body with those of the person who is "modeling" human movement.

The greatest limit to the lifelike movement of the robot is that it has only 31 actuators in its upper body; a nearby air compressor provides the energy needed for articulation.

In his excellent novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick explores what happens in a society when android replica humans cannot be physically distinguished from human beings. Only the Voight-Kampff empathy test can make the distinction, when used by a trained officer like Rick Deckard:

"I'm not a peace officer," Rick said. "I'm a bounty hunter." From his opened briefcase he fished out the Voight-Kampff apparatus, seated himself at a nearby rosewood coffee table, and began to assemble the rather simple polygraphic instruments...
(Read more about the Voight-Kampff test)

San Francisco's Wave magazine recently wondered whether or not candidates for their mayoral elections were humans or androids; they applied an empathy test to make sure. See Is Your Candidate Human?. Read more about Repliee Q1 in Ultra-Lifelike Robot; more materials available at Android Science. Thanks to Andy Gowland for contributing the tip on this story.

(This Science Fiction in the News story used with permission from Technovelgy.com - where science meets fiction.)

I'd do that robot if it had some realdoll HQ cooter.

Hooch · Post by **Hooch** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:36 pm

UltraBurz wrote:I'd do that robot if it had some realdoll HQ cooter.

You'd do anything with a cooter.

UltraBurz · Post by **UltraBurz** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:59 pm

Unless it is fat!

Niha Pleeze · Post by **Niha Pleeze** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:06 pm

fat robots get no play...

UltraBurz · Post by **UltraBurz** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:19 pm

No one likes fat girls

Hooch · Post by **Hooch** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:09 pm

UltraBurz wrote:Unless it is fat!

Or:

UltraBurz · Post by **UltraBurz** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:13 pm

ROFL..sick

I don't dip in the brown sugar.

Niha Pleeze · Post by **Niha Pleeze** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:22 pm

ahhhh, what good woman doesnt h8 the coloreds.. #=D

UltraBurz · Post by **UltraBurz** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:08 pm

Niha Pleeze · Post by **Niha Pleeze** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:34 pm

RAISTLE LOL · Post by **RAISTLE LOL** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:41 pm

wayne brady is not black

CroinctheNeoCon · Post by **CroinctheNeoCon** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:47 pm

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CroinctheNeoCon · Post by **CroinctheNeoCon** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:48 pm

CroinctheNeoCon wrote:
RAISTLE LOL wrote:wayne brady is not black

CroinctheNeoCon · Post by **CroinctheNeoCon** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:48 pm

CroinctheNeoCon wrote:
CroinctheNeoCon wrote:
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Unclean · Post by **Unclean** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 9:16 pm

Looks like that guy is staring at the robot thinking "Ahhhh the handjob programming is almost comprete..."

Hooch · Post by **Hooch** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:42 pm

UltraBurz wrote:

UltraBurz · Post by **UltraBurz** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 12:12 am

Hooch wrote:
UltraBurz wrote:

NIGGA STOLE MY BIKE!!!11uno!!

Fallakin Kuvari · Post by **Fallakin Kuvari** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:54 am

Nigga stole my bike, for reals

Niha Pleeze · Post by **Niha Pleeze** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:05 am

holy shit fal, one f the funniest things ivve seen you post. man i miss mike tysons punch out

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