Mon 24 Jul 2006
Mad scientist creates robot version of himself
Posted by jill under News , What's just changed1 Comment
Here’s a story from one of our favourite sites.
“…If you thought that lifelike female robot Korea was working on was creepy, get a load of this. Hiroshi Ishiguro, a senior researcher at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories in Japan, has created a robot that looks exactly like himself.
Created using casts of his body, his robot doppelganger sits and fidgets, looks around and taps his toe just like his creator. Ishiguro actually created this robot to, no joke, fill in for him in the classroom at Osaka University, where he’s a professor. By sending his voice through the robot from his home an hour away while wearing lip-sensors so the robot can replicated what he say, Ishiguro can redefine telecommuting…”
Source: SciFi Tech
August 10th, 2006 at 3:42 am
Good heavens – that’s so bizarre. I wonder how he can tell if the students are behaving themselves – or, indeed, if any of them are actually in the classroom at all?