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Man and his clone droid
Man and his clone droid
Can you say, the future is here!?!?
Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro clones himself, android-style. His incredibly lifelike mechanical double, "Geminoid HI-1," sometimes takes his place in meetings and classes.
Geminoid can be operated remotely so the robot reproduces the voice, posture and lip movements of Ishiguro, who wears a motion-capture system. A mouseclick raises a hand or finger.Ishiguro, whose job is teaching at Osaka University, an hour's drive away, designed Geminoid so he could "robot in" to his classes and skip the commute. As he steps out from behind a curtain like the Wizard of Oz, standing beside his robot self, the shift is disconcerting.
Read the whole story from Wired: Meet the Remote-Control Self
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ReBlogged by ann p on Jul 21, 2006 at 03:16 PM
Posted by ann p on Jul 21, 2006 at 03:16 PM
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