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The Robot Professor
kaizokunami writes "From Wired News, we learn that a Japanese professor has created an android of himself that he uses to 'robot in' to classes. According to the article, 'It blinks and fidgets in its seat, moving its foot up and down restlessly, its shoulders rising gently as though it were breathing. These micromovements are so convincing that it's hard to believe this is a machine -- it seems more like a man wearing a rubber mask.'" More from the article: "'I want to check whether students, as well as my family, can feel my presence through Geminoid,' says Ishiguro, who seems perfectly at ease with his new twin. Geminoid already has a palpable gravitas that comes across when chatting to Ishiguro through the android, and one hesitates to even poke the machine's rubbery hands and cheeks."
Grad students are now obsolete.
Domo arigato, Professor Roboto!
I have been looking for an android with a palpable gravitas for a long time. I hope it is fully functional.
I'll probably be modded down for this...
Robot Supermodels.
This is Japan we're talking about...
But is this robot professor... fully functional? Alternitively, in other news half of slashdot realizes that they can make their very own girl robot...
Ow! My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!
Pete/Petri "damn, my chainsaw is clogged with 1's and 0's again." --clyde
Sure, he may be at ease with his 'twin' now, but little does he realize that it's actually all part of its nefarious plan for world domination. Soon he will be disposed of, and his identity taken over...
Do we give the professor a disk with a jpeg of an apple on it?
...the shit's going to hit the fan when the guy dies and the robot decides to seek revenge on the guys that made fun of him in college, leaving the dimwitted clones of one of the revengee's children to seek out help from their grandfather's crack team of adventurers.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
I want to check whether students, as well as my family, can feel my presence through Geminoid.
Sounds like this guy is using The Force to suit his evil purposes.
In future degrees will be awarded on the basis of library fines.
KFG
And those grad students need to take better care of themselves - look at the acne on the guy in the last picture! He's giving even the most ardent mom's basement-dwelling
Let me guess--the only clues that it's a robot are that it has a permanently painted on smirk, its eyes don't seem quite focused, there's a square access panel on its back (the door to which makes a visible outline even over a suit jacket in debates), it gets tired late at night when its battery runs down, it is overly touchy-feely with German diplomats and bald people, ... and, of course, it requires a human to operate it from an "undisclosed location".
Kent M Pitman
Philosopher, Technologist, Writer
blasphemy! I've always wanted a female invisible naked assassin robot to be a reality!
disclaimer: I've been known to store numbers in my ass for which to dig out when quantities are required.
One of my lecturers told me that at one of the few lectures I attended. All the time I thought i was lazy, I was just being efficient.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
Or if it makes you more comfortable, play the book on tape through a Teddy Ruxpin. Same difference.
John