Feb 7, 2010

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Surrogate Consumer Demand « Daily Reckoning »

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 07:00 AM PST

Hiroshi Ishiguro is a man. Geminoid is a tele-operated humanoid robot. At the Osaka University Intelligent Robotics Laboratory here in Japan, professor Ishiguro has created a surrogate robot to perform his lectures for him. Geminoid talks like Ishiguro. "He" looks like Ishiguro. "His" facial features and mannerisms were developed to mimic those of his owner-operator perfectly. For all intents and purposes, Geminoid is the ideal surrogate.
Bruce Willis, eat your heart out.
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