What Happens When Robots Act Just Like Humans
What Happens When Robots Act Just Like Humans
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
October 18, 20171h 17m
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Show Notes
Three years later, in 2005, Ishiguro unveils Repliee Q1 Expo to the public. Modeled on a grown woman (a popular Tokyo newscaster) and produced with better funding, this version can move its upper body fluidly and lip-synch to recorded speech. Ishiguro’s lab conducts several studies with it; the results are featured in a major Japanese robotics journal; the lab is filmed for television; he hears about a copycat android in South Korea.
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