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Robo-Chefs and Fashion-Bots On Show In Tokyo

Posted by timothy on from the someone-will-need-to-nurse-the-elderly dept.

avishere writes "The International Robot Exhibition kicked off this week in Tokyo, unveiling the latest whirring and buzzing inventions from 192 companies and 64 organizations from at home and abroad — and bringing humanity another step closer to irrelevance. Among the humanoid cavalcade was a prototype robo-chef, showing off its cooking and cutting skills, along with robots to play with your children, model clothes, and search for disaster victims. There was also one made almost exclusively of cardboard. The exhibition — which opened with a human-like robot called Nextage cutting the ribbon — runs until Saturday."

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  1. Robotic games by st0nes · · Score: 2, Informative

    These guys are there. This thing is really ice-cool. http://www.roboni-i.com/

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    1. Re:Robotic games by Kagetsuki · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Two ways that could go: 1. holiday sales hit leading the company to a temporary jump in sales, then an extended period of poor sales ending in purchase of company assets and dissolution by a major toy company. 2. Immediate and total crushing failure.

      I'm really not trying to be too negative, the robot itself doesn't seem bad... but they don't really show any of that autonomous navigation they claim and what they do show is an uninteresting looking on-line game and a few remote-control games that have been done before; RC laser tag and RC obstacle course/ball carrying games. I owned a set of laser tag "tanks" as a kid and they were great if you had enough cardboard to make a little battlezone style world in your room, but they were also probably a third the size of these things.

  2. Re:Do not confuse by MichaelSmith · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...showing off its cooking and cutting skills, along with robots to play with your children...

    Not the best choice of sentence structure there.

    Its a good idea to be wary of AIs with built in process optimisation.

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  3. Bummer! by Undead+NDR · · Score: 2, Funny

    The robo-chef doesn't wear a chef hat.

  4. Re:Most disturbing robot by spintriae · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm more curious as to what those mammaries are for.

  5. Re:192 companies and 64 organisations by MichaelSmith · · Score: 2, Funny

    do they choose these numbers for a reason?

    Robots would. Just like we would choose 100 companies and 10 organisations.

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  6. Re:Most disturbing robot by Mark_in_Brazil · · Score: 3, Funny

    GP:

    . Its something about they way she is flicking her left finger. I wonder what it is for?

    PP:

    I'm more curious as to what those mammaries are for.

    Those are the robot's eyes. Scientists have found that men will make better eye contact with the robot that way, which facilitates reading their facial expressions.

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  7. Re:Most disturbing robot by Ralph+Spoilsport · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I'm more curious as to what those mammaries are for.

    It's a tradition in Robotmaking - viz Maria from Metropolis.

    Men build sexually arousing robots - mythologically it goes back to Pygmalion and Galatea.

    When men pretend to be robots, it just comes off as ridiculous.

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