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Actroid is a type of android (humanoid robot) with strong visual human-likeness developed by Osaka University and manufactured by Kokoro Company Ltd. (the animatronics division of Sanrio). It was first unveiled at the 2003 International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo , Japan .
Androids are robots designed to have a very strong resemblance to humans. These include: Actroid, a realistic female robot demonstrated at Expo 2005 in Japan; Hanako, a humanoid robot designed for the training of dental professionals [4] HRP-4C, a humanoid robot with a realistic head and the figure of an average young Japanese female [5]
The robot expresses its face by moving all points to the decided positions, they say. The first version of the robot was first developed back in 2003. After that, a year later, they made a couple of major improvements to the design. The robot features an elastic mask made from the average head dummy. It uses a driving system with a 3DOF unit.
In robot development, Ishiguro concentrates on the idea of making a robot that is as similar as possible to a living human being. At the unveiling in July 2005 of the gynoid Repliee Q1Expo (in the cybernetic world, the term for female android, gynoid, from ancient Greek "gyne", that is woman) he was quoted as saying, "I have developed many ...
Examples of notable feminine robots include: EveR-1 [9] Actroid, designed by Hiroshi Ishiguro to be "a perfect secretary who smiles and flutters her eyelids" [10] HRP-4C [11] Meinü robot [12] [13] Ai-Da, the world's first robot art system to be embodied as a humanoid robot. [14] [15]
(Reuters) -Nvidia on Monday took the wraps off new products such as artificial intelligence to better train robots and cars, souped-up gaming chips and its first desktop computer, as it expounded ...
Obedient robots that work for the Alpha Gang which are so poorly programmed that they fail at everything they do. The most common model of Alpha Droid is the Actroid which can curl up into balls for easy transportation. In "Field of Screams", it is shown that the Alpha Droids can become dizzy as seen when they end up bunched up into one soccer ...
It was first unveiled at the 2003 International Robot Exposition in Tokyo, Japan. The Actroid woman is a pioneer example of a real machine similar to imagined machines called by the science fiction terms android or gynoid, so far used only for fictional robots. It can mimic such lifelike functions as blinking, speaking, and breathing.