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Korea Unveils World's Second Android
Chosun Ilbo is reporting that Korea has unveiled the worlds second android. From the article: "Korea has developed its own android capable of facial expressions on its humanoid face, the second such machine to be developed after one from Japan. The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy invited some 60 children to the Kyoyuk Munhwa Hoekwan in Seoul to introduce Ever-1 to the public. The name combines the first human name found in the Bible, Eve, with the 'r' in robot."
being the Worlds Second Android, would the name Radam-1 be more fitting? Just a suggestion.
The first andriod being Abraham Lincoln at Knott's Berry Farm. "Four Score and seven years ago..." *random flash photographer* "DESTROY! DESTROY!" But seriously, its kinda sad that Asia's mass media usually puts robots in such a good light (as oppossed to our western "there taking over!" luddite outlook) that we won't be producing anything like this for a while. I for one welcome our new robot masters, with their 6 facial expressions and 400 phrases.
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It's almost as bad as B-4
Isn't that a gynoid, not an android?
Uh...there's only been one before that? What do they define as an android? Because there's obviously a very low bar of quality if they consider that to be an android. Pretty sure all of the tin cans with legs from the 1950's should also qualify as androids if this does.
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1. Make robot
2. Invite 60 children for the robot to eat
3. Post on slashdot to get audience
4. ??????
5. Profit
Is this a dupe, or did it just take a while to make /.? I know I've seen this already, pics and all.
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Second comes right after first [long pause]
The Uncanny Valley attacks again! This one gives me the creeps!
At least this one looks slightly less creepy than that SimPal thing from 6th Day.
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the only possible solution is to have them fight to the death Rock 'em Sock 'em Robot Style
They are actually claiming the second android is a clone of the first korean android. I have my doubts.
I dunno, judging by the pictures it looks like we haven't quite reached the other side of the Uncanny Valley yet.
Old news? On my slashdot? More likely than you think.
Did anyone notice that both the Koreans and the Japanese have done exactly what Saber Marionette, Mahoromatic, and Cat Girl Nuku Nuku have predicted, and that is direct their formidable robotics skills to the building of more and more realistic, supple-skinned robot women?
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Yea, I know it's not real.....I don't care!
The article is kind of light on details, but this could be pretty cool.
Imagine the monitors in the face being combined with facial recognition software. Haven't they already made bipedal robots? Take this head, put it on one of those, teach it commands like "clean the house," "wash the dishes," "walk the dog"...it's your basic household robot. I guess you should probably throw the Three Laws of Robots in there as well, to be safe.
As for the uses mentioned in the article...do you really need a "human-like" face just to provide department store information? Isn't that what the little touch-screens and maps are for? You'd think they'd think on a little grander scale...
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So we no longer have to deal with an easily navigable touchscreen kiosk, we get to deal with something that exhibits emotion--I wonder if that includes confusion... It's also interesting that the capabilities include "reading to children" (as if video games aren't sufficient caretakers)
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The fact that the robot resembles Björk just makes it creepier. Maybe they should have dressed it up in a swan dress...
**mental note** Got to get away from the computer.
Of course I'm kidding but it brings up an interesting thought, how many android men have been developed?
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is the question every lonely geek is wondering... ala "Real Dolls"
"The same thing we do every night, try to take over the world" -The Brain (Pinky&the Brian)
..... Is it FULLY FUNCTIONAL in EVERY way?
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I would expect the second to be better than the first (done by a different team, I know). I was much more impressed by Repliee which looks much more human-like than the picture in the article.
Centralization breaks the internet.
The first android being Al Gore. His positronic brain did invent the internet.
Looking at something like that just gives me the creeps.
...the dream of the japanese people is finally coming true! First robot tentacles, and now robot women to use them on!
I've seen at least a few of this guy's robots...
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They seem to do everything that makes this robot a big deal. Why is it considered only the second ever?
I think it would look more appropriate placed in a wheelchair?
I'm hardly Christian, but Eve was also the first MOTHER. Unless this thing cranks out robot babies, they've got a bit of a misnomer.
Also...did anyone else get a wierd feeling looking at the close-up photo of her face? I finally figured it out- she is (or looks) slightly cross-eyed. Took me a while to figure it out, but the second I saw the photo I knew something was "wrong" (a phenomenon special effects guys know all too well. You may not realize it, but your brain immediately picks up on things like shadows that aren't in the right place and stuff.)
I believe we are especially sensitive to the messages the eyes convey. So even if this thing gives the correct answer to "where can I find the Ministry of Whatever" or "have you seen my bento box", maybe it'll really disturb people on a level they won't immediately figure out.
I'd love to hear what all those schoolkids said in the ride home or back at dinner with Mom and Dad...
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Murderous Dog Stew Lover Undone by Telltale Collar
A discarded dog collar led authorities to a man in his 40s who had stolen a pedigree dog and turned it into the stew known as Boshintang that is still considered a delicacy by some Koreans.
Police said a woman identified as Kim (57) on the morning of April 3 tied her pedigree dog, of a breed that sells for some US$300, in the yard of the restaurant she manages. That was the last she saw of her furry companion. Searching all over the neighborhood later that morning, however, she found the animal's collar near the door of a portakabin, home to a man identified as Song (44). Kim reported her suspicion that Song had stolen the dog to the police, who arrested the man on Monday.
An officer with Seoul Guro-gu police station said Song was a great lover of Boshintang, and his mouth watered at the sight of the dog, driving him to steal the animal and eat it. "He probably never thought he would be caught because of the collar," the officer added.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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human name in the bible? I mean from what I understand, Eve was made out of his rib ...
When will she be ready for sex?
Hmm, somebody there at slashdot doesn't have their head screwed on wrong. The quote was "The name combines the first human name found in the Bible, Eve, with the 'r' in robot". I'm not sure if you were just trying to be inventive and make up a way that the name was designed or if somebody over in Korea forgot to read the Bible, but every single time I've read it, Adam was the first human name found in the Bible. Don't believe me, read it yourself!
The women get robot men and the men get robot women. The robot tenticles get used on real women and the robot woment get used on real men.
Okay this is off topic but did anyone else notice the link to the upper right of the story, "Murderous Dog Stew Lover Undone by Telltale Collar?" I always thought that Koreans eating dogs was a myth. Any slashdotters want to confess to trying it?
Can you imagine if he was female? "Data, I'd like to see you in my ready room for a full level one diagnostic."
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Ill be impressed when she/it washes my dishes !! wait -- I have a machine that does that its called a dishwasher best of all it doesnt talk back or give me evil eyes.
"to introduce Ever-1 to the public. The name combines the first human name found in the Bible, Eve, with the 'r' in robot."
Or maybe the word... ever, perhaps?
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so how long till someone adds the hot lesbian makeout subrutine
vagina?
... so the quesiton is... Can she make the O-face?
Cannot move lower body but can express pleasure. Odd.
i'd hit it. :)
Anyone else notice they don't say which Korea? Obviously we all know that answer, but come on!
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no... really....
It's the world's second andrdoid and its name is ever?
Does that make it The World's Second Android Ever?
Thank you, thank you!
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Evil-1?
it's hard to tell with that accent.
If my call is important, why am I talking to a recording?
Learn to spell.
Does it run linux?
I'd end up with the model that powers up and says "I see you as a friend" and then it walks away with the first unemployed alcoholic it sees. It *is* based on a woman, yes?
Mostly random stuff.
I'd hit it.
...of THESE!
"The name combines the first human name found in the Bible, Eve, with the 'r' in robot."
;)
:( It looks like no $1,000,000 mechanical whores for now.
Well, unless you meant to say the first *female* name in the bible, you're wrong. Adam is the first human name mentioned in the bible. Not to pick at straws, but just thought you should know.
(Well, I guess since it's a "female" android, it wouldn't make sense to call it "adam". But still!)
"Ever-1 can move its upper body and "express" happiness, anger, sadness and pleasure."
Hmm... Sounds promising
"But the robot is still incapable of moving its lower half"
Damn.
My Bible (King James version) does not say whether God assigned Adam the name of "Adam" or not, only that he was referred to simply as "the man" until Genesis 2:19 when all of a sudden he starts getting referred to by the proper fistname of Adam, with no indication of whether God assigned Adam his firstname or whether Adam chose it for himself. Since Genesis 2:19 is also when God starts bringing all the animals before Adam to give him the opportunity to chose names for them, it kinda leaves you wondering who picked Adam as the man's firstname. My Bible however does state that it was Adam who gave Eve both her gender designation of "woman" (Genesis 2:23) and her firstname of "Eve" (Genesis 3:20), which would indeed make "Eve" the first human name assigned by one human to another.
She'll rule the World, crushing all with her giant man hands!
It took a collection of American scientists to invent the Robotic Tentacle. Man, the Japanese really have lost their edge.
I think it's very, very important for the rest of us to do whatever we can to prevent our American roboticists from mingling with their Asian counterparts. For the sake of the children, if nothing else.
It's kind of evil looking. Definately not something I would want looking or reading to my kids. I'll admit jumping a bit at the sight of the close-up. Just kinda creepy...
Forget the damned facial expressions. I wanna robot to take out the garbage, fetch a drink, and do the laundry. And WITHOUT facial expressions. Otherwise, it is a fricken ewife.
Table-ized A.I.
yes, but will she show me her OH face?
Al Gore. A human could not have invented the Internet; the pr0n would have distracted them.
This is the second time in two days I've seen this spammer post off-topic sex-ads. Hello, Slashdot?
I heard a rumor that at E3 we'll see what happens when they put five of these things together!
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Best name, EVER1!11!!!
Haven't they seen the runaway-female-assassin-robot-movie starring Gregory Hines, Eve of Destruction ?
Anyone who's ever been in a Sex Shop could've made the same prediction.
Sounds a little too much like "reeve" when you flip it around... It'll be one of those "I can't believe we didn't see it coming" situations. August 29, 1997 baby.
I think it's something different. --Everybody is slightly cross-eyed when they look at things close up.
I feel slightly creeped out by ALL mannequins, but since I've seen a few zillion in my life, I don't register it anymore. --But that's largely based on the non-luminescence of plastic skin, (real skin is slightly see-through), the fact that eyes don't track, and the overall totally obvious sense of fake, etc.
Here it's a bit different; no single detail of the face looks un-real.
I think if somebody were to pose for this shot and I was told it was an android, I'd feel just as disturbed. I think the creep factor lies in the knowing it's not real and imagining having to deal with the damned thing moving around in real life. I've seen enough scary movies about robots to feel a real sense of threat when the fourth wall is replaced with air.
But maybe it's something different. In any case, you're quite right. It's creepy. I can certainly see how the war would have started.
-FL
I found myself reviewing my combat advantages; I'm stronger, faster, smarter, have better balance and my parts take longer to wear. . .
For now anyway.
Talk about basic instincts. It's just a collection of parts with a plastic skin pulled over top; A dumb toy, and yet my fight or flight responses were engaged.
I have an idea; let's NOT build soul-less robo-creatures. We have enough organic ones walking around as it is. They bore me, creep me out, and I wouldn't want to have sex with one of them either.
-FL
The cocksucker's been at it for weeks.
/. isn't going to do anything about it.
Leave it to the mods, since
Bah! Now they are building robots that look more attractive than my past girlfriends.
I'm gonna be rejected by androids!
"So who's your dream date, Ann-Droid, Sir Clive Sinclair? Bill Gates? Professor Stephen Hawkins?"
"Ewww, no way. Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Or Georgy as I like to call him, when he calls me on my mobi at the weekends..."
"Bah!"
"17 And to Adam [first occurrence of name] he said: "Because you listened to your wife's voice and took to eating from the tree concerning which I gave you this command, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life. 18 And thorns and thistles it will grow for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the field. 19 In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return." 20 After this Adam called his wife's name Eve, [first occurrence of name] because she had to become the mother of everyone living."
Android comes from the greek root andro- meaning man. The word "androgynous" comes from the gree words for both Man and Woman and means having both male and female qualities.
:-)
Since this machine is female in form, it should not be called an android, but a gynoid.
Adam's name appears a whole chapter before Eve's, for heaven's sake! While I applaud the invention of this rubbery-looking, creepy android, I think the next model is going to have to be able to sort single-digit numbers.
P.S. Dokdo is Korean territory! Dokdo nun uri ddang! No, wait, I changed my mind. Takeshima is Japanese! Takeshima ha nihon no ryoudo -- no, wait, it's Korean! Man, I love territorial disputes, especially ones in the East Sea. No, I mean the Sea of Japan.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
Why yes, I would expect very much so.
.... is it compatible with all those plugins i bought from http://www.sinulate.com/
I didn't think they looked that weird. From what I have observed (ok, only in the movies) Japanese girls look kinda cross-eyed when they're focusing on you - or something less than a few meters away.
It might be they only cast slightly cross-eyed girls in the movies though, since it looks kinda cute.
I was impressed with the eyes on this one. Although the close-up photo is pretty low-res they seem to have gotten the iris right. I'm sure I would say otherwise if I saw this thing moving, though.
A woman that works like a machine...
...That's just sick!
Wait... it can't move its lower half???
When are they gonna announce a technology-sharing partnership with Real Doll. That's when I'll really take notice!
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it is "funny" that more human they look more scary they are.
No. Since it is female in form it should be called a blood-sucking, scheming bitch!!
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Q: How is a gyndroid's face like a frontpage Slashdot article?
A: There may be two other entries, just below it.
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This is s'posed to be a new thing? What about disney animatronics? Or did they not do facial expressions?
Check out www.applegeeks.com They already have a bot named Eve.
Guns are for wimps... Use a crossbow.. this way you can pin them to their chair when you go postal.
Who would win?
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Or, maybe not.
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The name combines the first human name found in the Bible, Eve, with the 'r' in robot.
Technically, shouldn't they have named it after the second name in the bible? Although the firrst name IS the second person so maybe the article just emphasizes the wrong logic?
What does it say that this is the most comment worthy thing I got from this article?
The translation "Adam" is simply ancient Hebrew for "man", or in context, more loosely "made from earth". Also, "Eve" translates from "life" or "one who lives". So really, neither actually have a known proper first name, and the names by which we refer to them from scripture (Adam and Eve) are merely for our convenience and are a result of a cascade of translations of translations of translations, etc, across several languages and traditions.
If you truly wish to study the Bible and/or the Torah, you need to learn both Hebrew and Greek, for there are many idioms and colloquialisms in the original languages that get lost across the nested translations.
I seem to remember reading a sci-fi story somewhere, possibly one of Asimov's, involving androids and robots in the future. The topic is brought up that, in the story's setting, robots had to be intentionally designed to look unhuman, because people are too disturbed by robots that appear too close to humans. The replies to this article really lend support to the possibility of a scenario like that. I agree with the majority of posters here, an android that looks too much like a human would creep me out, especially if there were a lot of them. If there was just one and it was like Data or something, I may be able to get used to him after a long period of time.
If the androids were clearly artificial in speech and mannerisms, and had that same non-human feel to them that conversations with (and I realize this is an odd comparison) IMbot porn spammer scripts have, I could never get used to them and would always be uncomfortable around them. Uncomfortable customers means low profits for someone seeking to sell these things. I think what we're likely to see is some of these fancy looking models available to the few wealthy who want them, and stripped down "robotic" looking ones doing things like helping out old people and doing maid work around the house. People don't want Data, they want Rosie from the Jetsons.
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...the 24th century! :-)
Does anybody have a link to a video of this "android"?
Korea re-unified while I was asleep?
Wow, I snarfed coffee on my keyboard, thanks! I think the command phrase should be:
"Smile like a donut"
~nate
According to the article, the robot can express pleasure? Exactly how can you give her pleasure is not explained in the article.
Ever-1 has nothing to do with the bible... whoever supplied that explanation is an idiot...
Ever-1 == Everyone with a slight Korean accent, duh. Eve + the r in robot, please... that's the crudest attempt at decrypting a codename I've ever seen.
It also would symbolize that she is unique and always will be, as an early model unit she will never be reproduced, ie: ever alone/unique, Ever-1.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
WHY?
Perhaps this is named for the seccond person mentioned in the Bible, (Eve) the first of course being Adam. As we all know it was eve who first fell into temptation and then brought adam along, though he was none the less guilty. I think if things follow the mantra of japanese flicks, we should se Cain and Able shortly... Luckily for us, there is no need for us to worry about global domination yet as first we will have a war within the androids as two factions split after cain destroys able... Not to say they wont destroy humanity at a later time..
2 questions though... will ever-2 cause problems for our crippled eve, or is this just the way lesbians have decided to take over the world, by reinacting creation with a twist.. No dudes..
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Scary...
All techical advancement has been tied to porn or military. I can see a whole new area of export for Korea. RealDoll and Fembot. I wanna buy their stock and get the generation 2.
They all look alike!
I would prefer one with inhumanly large breasts.
I think the first android that was mentioned in the article is the one shown in this link:
= 13
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4714135.stm
From the photos, I'd say that the Japanese one looks more life-like, but that could just be because of the close-up on the Korean one.
Also, I think they both count as androids simply because they look (at least semi-convincingly) human, rather than anything really technically sophisticated. Check what Answers.com has to say:
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=android&gwp
I think, though, that the 'uncanny valley' phenomenon is not simply a novelty reaction. I think, much like other animals, humans have an 'avoid corpses!' instinct (or perhaps a more general 'avoid unhealthy looking human-like objects!' instinct). Many people are creeped out by full-body mannequins no matter how much they are exposed to them, which I imagine is why most clothing shops have switched over to partial torso/bust mannequins.
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God's wisdom -- name = "Adam".
Human wisdom -- name = "wii".