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Erica, the 'most beautiful and intelligent' android, leads Japan's robot revolution

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Sho_Nuff82

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ZealousD said:
Uh, did nobody notice the raptor who checks you into the hotel?

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Alan, wake up.
This is nightmare fuel.
 
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Bert409

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Humanoid robots are creepy as fuck. We should be concentrating on developing adorable BLEEP-BOOP Astromech types.
 
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Future

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Need more facial muscles for lip synch and expressions. Fix that and tune the jerky robotic head motions and you might have something close to convincing
 
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borghe

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I love how we've had stories since science fiction first emerged as a genre, in which man made creations take over and eventually obliterate human life as we know it...

and yet human kind is ADAMANT in doing this in reality..

is the curiosity (and glory?) worth the eventual (yes, eventual) cost?
 
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PSqueak

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Toxi said:
Gynoid, not android.
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Marry me, Toxi.

DiipuSurotu said:
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Technically speaking...

-Both characters in this picture are Cyborgs.
-Dr. Gero Created a companion Cyborg for 18 that was not modeled after himself (because 17 and 18 are siblings)
-20, Gero himself, was the last cyborg or robot he made.
-Altho 19 was never on screen confirmed to be a full robot, we can certainly say the only actual confirmed android shown in the entire saga was 16
-For that matter, Cell was neither an android nor a Cyborg, Cell was a 100% Biological synthetic life form.

Yes, im a huge dork.
 
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Let me know when the robot can do something simple, like stand-up from the chair it had been sat in. Or sit down in a chair, I wouldn't even mind if it had wires hanging out of it, but I want to see a bipedal robot do even those seemingly easy tasks before we make this huge jump into the robot revolution.
 
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PSqueak

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Qwell said:
Let me know when the robot can do something simple, like stand-up from the chair it had been sat in. Or sit down in a chair, I wouldn't even mind if it had wires hanging out of it, but I want to see a bipedal robot do even those seemingly easy tasks before we make this huge jump into the robot revolution.
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Robot revolution doesn't actually need the robot to be capable of things like that, just needs the robot's AI to be sufficiently advanced and able to conect to other devices via network/internet.
 
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PdotMichael

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PSqueak said:
Robot revolution doesn't actually need the robot to be capable of things like that, just needs the robot's AI to be sufficiently advanced and able to conect to other devices via network/internet.
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Can't wait for AM to turn me into a soft jelly thing.
 
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Sho_Nuff82

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Qwell said:
Let me know when the robot can do something simple, like stand-up from the chair it had been sat in. Or sit down in a chair, I wouldn't even mind if it had wires hanging out of it, but I want to see a bipedal robot do even those seemingly easy tasks before we make this huge jump into the robot revolution.
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These are the problems that the Boston area robotics groups/Google are working on.

Once you have a synergy of the three fields (locomotion, lifelike modeling, and convincing, informative chat bots), then things get all sci fi. We might have something like that 100 years before we ever have "true AI".
 
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liquidtmd said:
Customer walks into store to buy one

Store assistant comes over

* "Soooo...can I fuck it"?

You know it. I know it.
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Robot Chicken predicting the future.

It'd be a step up from those outdated inflatable dolls. I wonder if one day it'll be like in Futurama where you can download celebrities...
 
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Qwell

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Sho_Nuff82 said:
These are the problems that the Boston area robotics groups/Google are working on.

Once you have a synergy of the three fields (locomotion, lifelike modeling, and convincing, informative chat bots), then things get all sci fi. We might have something like that 100 years before we ever have "true AI".
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Yah I know they are working on it and it was more of a rhetorical question. To the other persons comment regarding not needing to be able to do that, I do think if we are talking about the "robot revolution" it is kind of important that for that kind of stuff to happen. At least if we are talking about the robot helper movement, I know we can make specialized robots for some tasks, but I think the huge leap will be when we have that kind of robot that can integrate very easily with humans. Instead of having 1 robot that cooks, 1 robot that cleans, 1 robot that vacuums, 1 robot that moves furniture, 1 robot that paints your house etc. Things get much more exciting when you can have a robot that mimics the human flexibility. One robot that would be like a personal assistant, cooks, cleans, takes out the trash, repaints the house, mows the lawn etc.

I could be off base with that, but that is what I picture when I think of our future and what I'm hoping for that robots will be able to help us with. And especially when we are talking about an android specifically.
 
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Zaptruder

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Yo pro-tip japanese roboteers. Unless you can do skin, muscle, bone animation properly, stop wasting your time on hyper-real robots.

Go with anime style - less uncanny valley going on.

Something like: http://www.dannychoo.com/en/post/27274/Smart+Doll.html

I mean... it'll get its fair share of dumb remarks no doubt. But at least it's still expressive, human-like and an easier to achieve target for roboticization than the human faces that we're keenly and intimately familiar with.

Best bet is (unless you're making a sex-robot), to go with cartoon like humanoids. More like doraemon style than even the anime style that I linked above.
 
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Sho_Nuff82

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Zaptruder said:
Yo pro-tip japanese roboteers. Unless you can do skin, muscle, bone animation properly, stop wasting your time on hyper-real robots.

Go with anime style - less uncanny valley going on.

Something like: http://www.dannychoo.com/en/post/27274/Smart+Doll.html

I mean... it'll get its fair share of dumb remarks no doubt. But at least it's still expressive, human-like and an easier to achieve target for roboticization than the human faces that we're keenly and intimately familiar with.

Best bet is (unless you're making a sex-robot), to go with cartoon like humanoids. More like doraemon style than even the anime style that I linked above.
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I'm not going to click that link at work, I'm just going to go ahead and say no, most people (even creepers) will not want an anime waifu staring at them with bug eyes in their homes.
 
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I mean, she's not perfect by any means, but it's a step in the right direction. She seemed to respond pretty quickly to the questions asked, but of course she still looks too stiff and rubbery, so the realness effect seems a bit off. Though, this does show promise
 
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PSqueak

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Zaptruder said:
Yo pro-tip japanese roboteers. Unless you can do skin, muscle, bone animation properly, stop wasting your time on hyper-real robots.

Go with anime style - less uncanny valley going on.

Something like: http://www.dannychoo.com/en/post/27274/Smart+Doll.html

I mean... it'll get its fair share of dumb remarks no doubt. But at least it's still expressive, human-like and an easier to achieve target for roboticization than the human faces that we're keenly and intimately familiar with.

Best bet is (unless you're making a sex-robot), to go with cartoon like humanoids. More like doraemon style than even the anime style that I linked above.
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What the hell man, that's creepy as fuck too, you need to dial it back even more, i thought you'd suggest something like Drossel.

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Which is barely one step down from the robots seen in the "I, Robot" movie, are aethetically pleasing, and frankly i find her prettier than your link or Erica.
 
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