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HRP-4C AIST's humanoid girl robot. The HRP-4C, nicknamed Miim, is a feminine-looking humanoid robot created by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), a Japanese research facility. Miim measures 158 centimetres (5 feet, 2 inches) tall and weighs 43 kilos (95 pounds) including a battery pack.
Scientists in Japan have made a robot face covered in living, self-healing skin that can smile in a demonstration of a new technique researchers believe could help pave the way for lifelike ...
Indeed, very few robots are explicitly male; it is the contrast with the female robot that makes the neutral one male (the principle of the male default). [44] Critics have also noticed how the creation of gynoids is associated with service roles, while androids or systems with male voices are employed in positions of leadership.
The album cover for Down for the Count by Y&T (1985) features a female robot being bitten in the neck by a vampire. [65] The album cover for Just Push Play by Aerosmith (2001) features a "curvy female robot in a Marilyn Monroe-like pose.". [66] The robot was designed by Hajime Sorayama. [67] [68] [69] [7]
The result, though eerie, is an important step towards building more life-like robots, said lead researcher Shoji Takeuchi. Say cheese: Japanese scientists make robot face 'smile' with living skin ...
In most cases, the robot's appearance has been modeled after an average young woman of Japanese descent. 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 .
Nadine is a gynoid humanoid social robot that is modelled on Professor Nadia Magnenat Thalmann. [1] The robot has a strong human-likeness with a natural-looking skin and hair and realistic hands. Nadine is a socially intelligent robot which returns a greeting, makes eye contact, and can remember all the conversations had with it.
The 3.5-ton robot, which will be unveiled at the Japan Mobility Show later this month, has two modes: the upright 'robot mode' and a 'vehicle mode' in which it can travel up to 10 km (6 miles) per ...