This Danish Professor Has A Robot Clone, For Some Reason

07 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone in Mind Fuck, Tech/Sci, Very Cool, Vibe, World

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I mean don’t get me wrong, I’d totally want one too, it’s just not totally clear why Henrik Scharfe, professor at Aalborg University, had the Geminoid DK assembled by the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute in Japan. It’s pretty realistic, though! And ostensibly the first android with a beard, so yay science.

BeardBot 3000 is known as the Geminoid DK – assembled by Hiroshi Ishiguro at the ATRI in conjunction with Kokoro, a robot manufacturer. The understanding is that the Geminoid is going to be used for research – in particular, emotional responses in human-robot interaction, and cultural attitudes towards human-lookin’ robots.

Which sounds way less awesome than what anybody would really do if they had a realistic robot clone, so I figure this is all academic wash. Expect robot cage fights soon.

[geminoid]

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