Mar 07
New Japanese Robot May or May Not Be Lead Singer of Everclear
Posted in: Robots, Robots Robotics, Today's Chili, Weird News
I don’t know about you, but I’ll never hear that song “Santa Monica” the same way again. Not after watching this video of Geminoid DK, a new Japanese robot that has made a home for himself smack dab in the middle of the uncanny valley. The robot was designed to look like an associate professor at Aalborg University in Denmark, but honestly, if you were standing on a rainy rooftop and had to either shoot this thing or the guy from Everclear, do you really think you could make the right call?
Geminoid DK is the first robot created by Japan’s Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) designed to look like a non-Japanese person. Head designer Hiroshi Ishiguro designed the first robot in the series after himself. The second robot was designed to look like a Japanese model. This new one, designed to look like Henrik Scharfe, appears to have stepped directly out a hipster version of The Polar Express.
The robot has motion capture technology and can move its face and head. It will live in Denmark, along with its face-sake.
Video of the Geminoid, after the jump
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