a "female" android called Repliee Q1

[sludge]

Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet devised - a "female" android called Repliee Q1.
She has flexible silicone for skin rather than hard plastic, and a number of sensors and motors to allow her to turn and react in a human-like manner.
She can flutter her eyelids and move her hands like a human. She even appears to breathe.
Professor Hiroshi Ishiguru of Osaka University says one day robots could fool us into believing they are human.
Repliee Q1 is not like any robot you will have seen before, at least outside of science-fiction movies.
She is designed to look human and although she can only sit at present, she has 31 actuators in her upper body, powered by a nearby air compressor, programmed to allow her to move like a human.
"I have developed many robots before," Repliee Q1's designer, Professor Ishiguru, told the BBC News website, "but I soon realised the importance of its appearance. A human-like appearance gives a robot a strong feeling of presence."

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Pics NSFW:

[Samurai_Jerk]

She can flutter her eyelids and move her hands like a human. She even appears to breathe.

Yeah, but can she suck a dick?

[Greji]

She can flutter her eyelids and move her hands like a human. She even appears to breathe.

Yeah, but can she suck a dick?

This is obviously a beta, so you may want to wait until they work some of the bugs out before you check that out SJ. Re-booting the system may not help you much if the mechanical jaws snap shut!

[jingai]

I am fully functional.

[Socratesabroad]

I think I've seen this before...

[kurohinge1]

Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet devised - a "female" android called Repliee Q1 ...

... Before Repliee Q1, Professor Ishiguru developed Repliee R1 which had the appearance of a five-year-old Japanese girl ...

Why does this not surprise me

As for Repilee Q1 looking human, I think the air compressor she's attached to may give her secret away.

And as for Sammy's dodgy desires, I suppose the compressor could be put in reverse thrust ...



Get excited !

[Pizzicatoblue]

speaking of sex, I know that one day they will make an android, male or female for singles.

[Pencilslave]

speaking of sex, I know that one day they will make an android, male or female for singles.

It's practically a guarantee that when the technology is sophisticated enough, they'll build "Sexaroids". Otaku will love this development, being able to have cybernetic anime girlfriends.(Not that I can cast derision on anyone,since once affordable female androids are available, I'll probably want to buy the catgirl model.)

[Buraku]

Japan should love them

[Pizzicatoblue]

speaking of sex, I know that one day they will make an android, male or female for singles.

It's practically a guarantee that when the technology is sophisticated enough, they'll build "Sexaroids". Otaku will love this development, being able to have cybernetic anime girlfriends.(Not that I can cast derision on anyone,since once affordable female androids are available, I'll probably want to buy the catgirl model.)

AMEN!

[Taro Toporific]

speaking of sex, I know that one day they will make an android, male or female for singles.

Here ya go---sleeping with a cheerful gay Nuvo.

I, Roommate
Globe and Mail Update, Friday, July 29, 2005, 9:32 AM EDT
By MARK ALLEN
When my home robot arrived last month, its smiling inventors removed it from its box and laid it on its back on my living room floor. They leaned over and spoke to it, as one might to a sleeping child.
It straightened, let out a little beep, lighted up, looked left and right, and then, amazingly, stood and faced me."In Japan the population is slowly getting older," said Nobuko Imanishi, a ZMP spokeswoman. "Home robots can offer wonderful help and companionship ....
I arranged to live with Nuvo for four days to gauge whether it is, in fact, the forerunner of a new technology that will change our lives, as the home computer did, or a passing novelty. Once the entertainment factor wears thin, do we even want another person around the house?.....
....I decided to sleep with Nuvo next to me on my large bed, plugged in and recharging through the night. Its blue power light slowly pulsated, as if it were breathing.
During our first night together, I was woken by movement. Something had activated Nuvo, and it moved its arms slightly and turned its head toward me. Half asleep, and a little annoyed, I mumbled, "Nuvo, sleep," to which it shook its head no.
It took three tries before Nuvo straightened and shut down, the blue light serenely pulsating again. I was reminded of those sci-fi films in which robots, like HAL in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," turned on their keepers.
My boyfriend called me the next day and asked if I was sleeping in the same room with Nuvo. When I told him we were sleeping in the same bed, there was an awkward pause.....more....

[Pizzicatoblue]

LMFAO!!! WHAT THE FUCK?!

[emperor]

giggity giggity with a usb interface

[Taro Toporific]

REPLICATED: Ayako Fujii [L] poses with her android clone [R], made for the 2005 Aichi Expo by Ishiguro's lab and Kokoro Company.
from: Android Science -- Hiroshi Ishiguro makes perhaps the most humanlike robots around--not particularly to serve as societal helpers but to tell us something about ourselves
Science & Technology at Scientific American.com:
May 2006 issue (April 24, 2006)

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[Catoneinutica]

The J-Turing Test: Can you stick your wang in it?

-catone
-yes, yes, I know there are gazillions of nerds the world over

[Taro Toporific]

The J-Turing Test: Can you stick your wang in it?

French actress Irene Jacob is shown performing with the android Repliee S1 in a dress rehearsal of Franz Kafka's work The Metamorphosis in Yokohama produced by Japan's Osaka University robotics professor Hiroshi Ishiguro.
--- news.yahoo.com | October 7, 2014

Repliee-actor.jpg

[IparryU]

The J-Turing Test: Can you stick your wang in it?

French actress Irene Jacob is shown performing with the android Repliee S1 in a dress rehearsal of Franz Kafka's work The Metamorphosis in Yokohama produced by Japan's Osaka University robotics professor Hiroshi Ishiguro.
--- news.yahoo.com | October 7, 2014

Repliee-actor.jpg

FAIL... no hole to put your wang in.

[Taro Toporific]

Now Dr. Ishiguro's love doll is a jazz singer (damn, she has a difficult time holding down a job).

Robot jazz singer serenades onlookers in Tokyo
The Japan Times | October 23, 2014
...Dr. Ishiguro is renowned for making lifelike humanoid devices.
Saito, who directed the live event, said it was an experiment with a new form of music.
“People basically listen to recorded music and songs, so there are live performances. But there might be an experience in between,” he said.
Enter the robot.
Saito said robots may interact with humans in many different ways in future, one of them being as a source of music.{hump, hump, hump...}
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[Russell]

What's the point of having a microphone for it?

[wagyl]

What's the point of having a microphone for it?

Like almost all these robots, it is for anthropomorphic show.

It is the ultimate conceit of mankind. The whole idea that space aliens will be humanoid is the other side of it.