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'Hello, I want to suck your soul.'

Postby Taro Toporific » Thu Apr 16, 2015 4:44 pm

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Robotic Customer Service? In This Japanese Store, That’s the Point
Wall Street Journal / Japan Real Time blog / April 16, 2015
Toshiba Corp. said its humanoid robot will debut at the information desk of an upscale department store in Tokyo next week and provide audio guidance to customers.
The female-looking robot, named Aiko Chihira, will only speak Japanese...the robot was created to appear, talk and move as humanly as possible.
Chihira blinks, bows and moves its mouth and lips smoothly while speaking. A Toshiba spokesman said that Chihira is programmed with multiple human-like expressions, and that it will offer six-minute guidance to customers with information about the department store including events...
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The robot will be set up at the Mitsukoshi department store in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, on Monday and Tuesday.
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Re: 'Hello, I want to suck your soul.'

Postby Wage Slave » Thu Apr 16, 2015 6:39 pm

But why? And why is Toshiba wasting money on this? Are they so flush with world beating products and cash that their engineers and designers have nothing better to do? If you are going to build robots at least build robots that can do something better, faster or at least more cheaply than a human. So you have created a very poor imitation of a human doing human things - what use is that to anyone?
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Re: 'Hello, I want to suck your soul.'

Postby Grumpy Gramps » Thu Apr 16, 2015 7:28 pm

Taro Toporific wrote:female-looking
Looking at the hands, I suspect it's rather a ladyboy :)

Another show of Japan's blatant lack of innovativeness, methinx. There would be so many great and wonderful possibilities for using bots, if only some creative minds were at the helm of things instead of teeth-sucking seat-farters. Sad.
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Postby legion » Thu Apr 16, 2015 10:40 pm

I think Mitsukoshi was the first business to use a motor car in Japan. Maybe everyone wondered why they would use something so expensive and unreliable.

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Postby Samurai_Jerk » Wed May 13, 2015 3:39 pm

The real soul suckers are Japanese bureaucrats ...

Exoskeleton that helps paralyzed walk faces barrier in Japan

Yuichi Imahata's 9-year-old daughter is thrilled her dad stands tall above her head. It's an experience that is new to her.

Imahata, 31, has been using a wheelchair to get around for seven years after a serious spinal-cord injury suffered in an accidental fall while working for a transport company. He completely lost sensation in both his legs and was told he would never walk again.

But he is now walking, at times with his little girl laughing beside him, because of a robotic exoskeleton called ReWalk.

The thrill is still limited to a rehabilitation center in Atsugi city, southwest of Tokyo, where ReWalk is available to a handful of Japanese paraplegics, skirting regulations, in the name of research.

It's already available in parts of Europe, and just received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for individual everyday use. But despite Japan's prowess in robotics, ReWalk advocates say its wider application here could be stymied by convoluted bureaucracy.

"It's a wonderful tool for people who sincerely want the joy of standing up," said Moriyasu Marutani of Kanagawa Rehabilitation Center, who works with Imahata to use ReWalk.

"Safety is the biggest concern for winning its approval for medical use, as well as presenting data that work as scientific evidence of its health impact," he said. "Approval tends to take many years here, and so the hurdle is pretty high."

ReWalk, an invention of Israeli entrepreneur Amit Goffer, who was paralyzed in a 1997 accident, clasps on to the legs and waist, and is designed to create natural walking movements, including standing, sitting and turning through upper-body motion sensors and special software. Medical experts say its use helps keep organs and bones healthy and also enhances mental well-being.

The product was one of the Israeli technologies highlighted with much fanfare as a symbol of flourishing commercial ties when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during Abe's visit to the Middle East earlier this year.

Japanese robotics maker Yaskawa Electric Co. has been distributing ReWalk in Asia under a deal signed last year with ReWalk Robotics, based in Yokneam, Israel.

The effort is going far more smoothly in places such as China than Japan, said Yaskawa spokesman Ayumi Hayashida.

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Hiroshi Yaginuma, a health ministry official overseeing the approval of medical devices, said ReWalk was not yet being considered for approval, and it was unclear whether it would meet the criteria for a treatment device. It is assessing the Hybrid Assisted Limb, or HAL, developed by Japan's Cyberdyne, in which a wearer's ability to walk is supported though it is not suitable for paraplegics.
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Postby matsuki » Wed May 13, 2015 4:10 pm

"Safety is the biggest concern for winning its approval for medical use, as well as presenting data that work as scientific evidence of its health impact," he said. "Approval tends to take many years here, and so the hurdle is pretty high."


Are there actual guidelines and shit that it has to meet or is this the (teeth suck) "muzukashiidesune" hurdle where you're at the mercy of some assholes with no transparency or reasonable response times?
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Postby Coligny » Wed May 13, 2015 6:36 pm

"Medical" anything require shitloads of paperwork... And usually trigger health insurance coverage for a part of the bill...

Put a recreationnal sticker on it and you can buy it at your local combini...
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Re: 'Hello, I want to suck your soul.'

Postby legion » Wed May 13, 2015 10:08 pm

Oddly enough Viagra went through in record time.
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Re: 'Hello, I want to suck your soul.'

Postby Coligny » Thu May 14, 2015 12:05 am

Wasn't viagra just derivative of another drug anyway ?
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Postby matsuki » Thu May 14, 2015 9:43 am

So going by the oh so popular Japanese "loophole" mentality, if you call it a "cosplay suit," it's all good?
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Postby Coligny » Thu May 14, 2015 10:57 am

Coul be... Just that it then can't be prescribed by doctors or reimbursed by healthcare...
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Postby matsuki » Thu May 14, 2015 11:08 am

Coligny wrote:Coul be... Just that it then can't be prescribed by doctors or reimbursed by healthcare...


Til someone dons one and uses it to beat up Abe...then they'll be banned for the potential use by terrorists :twisted:
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