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Robot Actress Makes Stage Debut In Japan
Robotron23 writes "The BBC reports that a robot named Geminoid-F has made its acting debut (video) in Japan. The short play in which it appeared was a sellout with the Japanese public, who were curious to see the robot's performance. However an actress who co-starred pointed out that the lack of human presence made the droid difficult to act alongside."
Oh Yeah! Japanese robot porn!
RULE 34!
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I would go on to have a thousand and four season run.
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So when will we be able to have Calculon?
The Uncanny Valley Effect is strong with this one.
Actually, the first robot actor ever was Keanu Reeves.
"A government is a body of people usually -- notably -- ungoverned." -Shepherd Book
The director said that this was the future of theater. You could have robots acting the way you envision it, without having to care with all the problems human actors tend to bring with him.
I saw it on the Japanese TV last night. My opinion is that if he doesn't like directing actors, he should look for another job.
The thing is tethered with all manner of control cables, so it's just a high-tech puppet. Was howdy-doody a "robot"? ...and did buffalo-bob suffer a lack of 'human presence' with the marionette he had to act with?, hell-no. thems was proper saucy-puppet-shows back in the stone age... yep.
In Japan there is apparently no Ship of Theseus-like paradox (at least if Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams is to be believed; not sure what appearance of said paradox in Ghost in the Shell might mean) - the essence of given object is quite firmly not related to materials from which it is (currently...) composed.
I wonder if such "robots" can/will be viewed by as the birth of "androids" - if some were to be constantly worked on, that is.
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acting in the role of Caprica Six
I don't understand why Japan is so obsessed with creating androids, while (arguably) the most essential technology behind enabling interaction with humans; the AI field of Natural Language Processing is being glossed over (or at least not getting the amount of attention it deserves). Not just computers, but humans too (and Japanese people in particular) tend to have great difficulty handling the barriers that foreign languages pose to vast amounts of useful foreign data. A successful grammar independent NLP framework for data representation, now that should be a goal to focus on. Everywhere, but in particular in insular countries like Japan. Sorry for wandering off topic...
Maybe she should star in yet another remake of the Stepford wives, only this time it is valuable robots being replaced by humans.
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
The Geminoid-F is an android, i.e. made to strongly resemble humans. When I first read the summary I thought it meant something like Asimo acting.
I was going to comment that she surely was the first robot stage actor, but wiki tells me Keanu played Mercutio in high school.
The question you should be asking now is, can she sing and dance? Cause from the look of things, the HRP-4C has it beat on both counts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcZJqiUrbnI
... when you can already attend concerts with a singing and dancing virtual pop star that is only about half as creepy?
you should watch some of it: youtube.com/results?search_query=hatsune+miku.
The Geminoid-F is a gynoid, i.e. made to strongly resemble a hot piece of ass. When I first read your comment I thought it meant something like Keanu Reeves acting.
She's programmed to be very busy right now.
It's an animatronic, not a robot. The kind that theme parks have.
Can someone explain the obsession that the Japanese have with white people? It's like some form of self-inflicted racism or something. I don't get it.
I don't know much since most of the materials are in Japanese, but I think before this it is called Actroid F. There is a Youtube video on the late testing phase of Actroid F. Three months ago I also saw two obscure videos with translated title "Long Distance Service Terenoido" which I believe shows the early prototype of the robot. Through the videos of the naked robot we can see pretty clear why the robot can only sit still and not move it's hand.
This is Jim Henson's muppets on steroids. It's an advanced and complex machine to be sure, but it doesn't do anything on its own. As the article shows/says, it is controlled by a person remotely. I fail to see the difference between this and any other puppet. There are robots that are programmed to respond to its environment, but this doesn't seem to be one of them. I don't think it's fair to characterize this as a "robot actor" until it can act. Wakamaru is a better actor.
...you're looking for Rossum's Universal Robots, which I am disappointed to note no-one has yet brought up.
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There are actors who've acted quite successfully alongside empty spaces - where the other character(s) will be added in later either manually or by CGI. They have to imagine the reactions.
Perhaps she's just not very talented?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Combine a flash video with a busy site and that's what you get. Why can't they just put a link to a mpeg file and let the browser use the normal video player?
Anyhow, the BBC being slashdotted seems a bit too much for me. If they want real time video they should first make sure that their servers can send out the bits at whatever rate is required.
GITS is carped bombed with references to western philosophy. I suspect it is much in the same way as how often a katana shows up in a hollywood action (in the hands of a aryan war god(dess) no less).
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Seriously, can't they do better than that? A puppet sitting still, slowly moving its arms, lips and eyelids? Remote control from back stage? Did we somehow teleport back 20 years or so? There are already robots that can walk around and do all sorts of movements based on real time autonomous decisions, surely you can make one that does a series of realistic, pre-programmed movements for a play?!
I fail to see how this is any different than Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, which Disney brought to the World's Fair in 1964. I suppose you have the added element of a human actor working alongside the animatronic, but I didn't see anything interesting. Mostly I just found the thing creepy...
The play went well, and the Robot actress was surprisingly seamless in her role.
There were a few hushed gasps when she snagged her blouse and revealed her arms were, in fact, two "Goal Keeper" Gatling guns, but apart from that, it was an enjoyable display of technology meets art.
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The video link produced a commercial. I don't watch video commercials on the Internet...in fact I don't watch many commercials on TV either. Hence I wasn't able to see the robot.
Fata viam invenient.
The lack of human presence.. absence of soul.. stilted interaction.. .. the role of IT programmer!
Skynet is here.
large boobs is an American thing, which is really silly for the rest of the world.
Japanese porn, OTOH, is characterized by bound girls and pixellated genitalia.
Shouldn't be too difficult, the robot is operated by wires, anyhow.
Ha ha, yes.
Has prior art!
So when a movie critic says the performance "was robotic", that's actually a good thing now?
Brad Dourif in Dune was mechanical. Had to be. "Landsdraad", heh.
Everyone knows Stargate SG-1 only died due to the actors wanting more than could be provided for them and getting older. Even the best shows die from age - robots offer a means to avoid this and I'm sure the cast of SG-1 are intimintly familiar with their current lackings, having been threatened with automation for a decade+
Gimme a break. What are you? A Turing Machine?
The tax payers want THEIR money to be spent collectively on THEM. -Not put into the pockets of military contractors and financial scam-artists, (banks). But refusing to get ripped off is somehow bad? Is somehow extorting the tax payer?
So-called "Conservative" thinkers like to believe they're good and responsible with numbers, yet never seem capable of doing the math on just how badly they're being ripped off. They don't even understand the basics of debt creation through money lending and how the whole thing, in every industrialized nation, is a deliberate con job established from the basement up. And if they do, -and this is the amazing part- they utterly fail to extrapolate what that means in any larger context.
The fact that those dots are difficult for you to connect means that YOU'RE the robot who has been successfully programmed to knee-jerk on any issue which sounds even slightly like Socialism. And for goodness sake! Fear of socialism? Get real! That anybody is still obsessing over single moms getting a 'free ride' is unbelievable. Your lizard buttons are being pushed with great finesse. Do you want crayons with that? The human brain has evolved the wetware to think beyond those simple and limiting paradigms. People are not muskrats and fish, and yet whole political movements encourage them to return to and embrace the laws of the jungle as though the whole bother of evolution was one big mistake. Psychopaths like that kind of thinking because they don't HAVE the wetware necessary for compassion, and they can't survive in a world where it's not all pure competition without any sort of balance. Fuck Psychopaths. They're responsible for the economic melt-down and the gulf disaster and the wars. If you can't see that, then you've either been conned or you're sporting your very own brain deficiencies.
You need to do more than just unplug from your TV. Hell, if you're still watching the Beeb, even in disgust, then you are miles away from your first clue.
Unplug, re-boot, re-think.
-FL
Art emulates life.
Seriously; the subconscious tries to recreate and understand itself through art by creating something to look at and evaluate with the senses, thus giving the intellect something to latch onto. The so-called, "Mirror" people talk about when discussing art. It's SO true.
Japan and China are hyper-controlled societies, people take orders and cram themselves into the pre-designated roles with great facility, even obsessive drive.
I remember watching a video of a punk rock convention in Japan. There was a lot of dyed hair and studded leather. But the most astonishing part was this one shot where a couple hundred "Punk Rockers" were all doing an angry head-bangy dance, while all perfectly lined up, toes to a chalk line on the ground they were not supposed to cross as per the rules of their punk rock convention.
That said it all.
This is why, I think, when the big culling comes about, the last populations which will be allowed to live (in serfdom) will be Asian DNA groups. They've been genetically designed to obey better and repress each other better, while fearing openness, trust and love.
That robot video gave me chills in a very bad way.
-FL
The "skin" on the robot can be virtually anything so...
How 'bout giving the "actress du jour" some extra publicity?
It could be colored (and multi-colored at that,) a nice Navii blue.
In fact, it could be giving war news from the war zone. "She done blowed up real good!"
Why use a human being at all?
We could get our financial news from "Goofy©(TM)®", describing the Wall street latest melt down that has just wiped out your life's savings.
How about "Donald Duck©(TM)®" giving us the political news from Washington? His quacking would make as much sense as the politi-pundits we're subjected to without having to be understandable.
We can get "Quick Draw McGraw©(TM)®" giving us the police report?
Tech news? Get "George Jetson©(TM)®" to act it out for us.
Who needs a robot when we can do it in CG?
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What are you, fifteen?
Seriously dude, do you think doctors are the kind of people who give a shit about somebody's hands? Amputees are lucky to get the hooks. (But you shouldn't wonder about the "incredibly lifelike dildos" and the "Fleshlight"!)
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Sorry I couldn't resist.
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"Welcome To The Internet" just came flowing into my earphones.
How apropos.
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What are you, fifteen?
Yes. That's exactly what I am. I am fifteen.
I suppose it shouldn't come as any surprise that even a mere adolescent can have a more solid and cogent understanding of reality than the average myopic self-centered fart.
-FL
I would never argue with a fifteen year old who can use the word "cogent".
It's not that big a surprise, but it's even less of a surprise that an adolescent would have convinced themselves that they have a superior understanding.
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It's not that big a surprise, but it's even less of a surprise that an adolescent would have convinced themselves that they have a superior understanding.
It doesn't take that much work to convince oneself of having a superior understanding. Any fool can do that, as the original poster neatly demonstrated. What DOES take work is being right; that requires transcending a bunch of automatic behaviors including selfishness and other fear-based emotions. I've never met a self-styled conservative who could counter even the most basic points I presented. (The bank question being at the top of that list). So they reduce themselves to ad hom bullshit and other stupid evasions and self-delusions.
Anyway.., anybody with a nice low UID like yours ought to know what ad hom implies about an argument and the failure to address it.
Sheesh.
-FL
I would never argue with a fifteen year old who can use the word "cogent".
So you'd only argue with somebody who isn't capable of arguing back?
Careful; that's exactly how stupid ideas as evidenced in the OP's comments sprout wings and take flight into the winds of fancy. If you can't hold your own in a written debate, it probably means your ideas are junk.
-FL