Japan Makes Bishoujo Android: HRP-4C
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 17, 2009 04:55 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Dutch Wife, Marketing, Robots, Technology, Video Gallery
Japan’s latest robot creation is an impressive combination of bipedal humanoid locomotion and simulated human interaction.
The robot, charmingly known as HRP-4C, can walk and talk with reasonable aplomb, being able to manage a self-introduction and a saunter which is optimistically described as being “just like a fashion model.”
The robot may go on sale next year, and is envisaged as being a “walking mannequin”, with sales to department stores hoped for. No likely price is mentioned.
The unit was developed by a governmental robotics lab, under the auspices of the National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (AIST). It is 158cm tall and weighs 43kg, being capable of operating on battery power for 20 minutes.
Via Sankei.
Typically, Japanese researchers have obsessed over none-too-practical (but very impressive) bipedal robots, with androids as the distant goal, whilst elsewhere (notably the US) we see a more utilitarian approach which is happy to incorporate all manner of animal and mechanical motion to get the job done efficiently. Clearly, Gundam has much to answer for.
Fortunately, there appears to be a huge market for both.
The obvious next step is combining this technology with the sex doll; Japan leads the world in both technologies, so expectations are high…
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JAPAN FOR TEH WIN!~
The first generation of "Major Kusanagi".
Sex android that goes,
"*WHIRRR* IIII- *WHIRRRR* KUUUUUU!!!"
Arms are like ridiculously too long. She looks like a miss-formed monkey women.
me want a YF-21 with battle armor.
Aegis, is that you?
Do want actual gundams one day.
Brrr i dont want to meet this thing alone in the night, especially near a black well....
It like girl from 'The ring' Came alive!
And this folks, is why 2012 is happening.
Can't wait for the STD carrying mobile dutch wife HRP-3S
They could have at least put a bikini on it or something.
Is that a Yuria Type 50?
Not bad for a human.
.... Are you not a human?
.... Are we not men?
...Are we dancers?
We are DEVO!
This is so creepy! I bet the next step will be to use a robot with implants from real human (like real human hands or at least a lab grown skin tissue).
The day when these robots will be able to go shopping for us will be the day all the otaku in Japan become hikikomori.
Personaly I want them to research Cyborg tech (so that we can cure handicaps).
http://i518.photobucket.com/albums/u347/atindesu/Image054-1.jpg
skynet exist desu ..
be scare ..desu
where is it located !!!!!111
That android is just freaky in all aspects...
That is one hell of a creepy android. Fell so far into the Uncanny Valley it shattered into pieces on landing.
Although, it kinda reminds me of an Imperial Stormtrooper... anyone else see that?
A little bit of arm swing would do wonders to take that machine out of uncanny valley.
WE WILL ALL BE HAVING A CHOBITS VERY SOON
Looking forward to chobits, even though it looks like this particular robot is taking a permanent vacation in the deepest pits of the uncanny valley.
oh gggreat now my seex toy can run away from me
hahahahahahaha
Now we wait for the Miku Hatsue version.
:3
Chobits is slowly becoming a reality
Chi turns on... Chi turns off...Chi turns on... Chi turns off...Chi turns on... Chi turns off...Chi turns on... Chi turns off...Chi turns on... Chi turns off...Chi turns on... Chi turns off...Chi turns on... Chi turns off...Chi turns on... Chi turns off...Chi turns on... Chi turns off...Chi turns on... Chi turns off...
LOL I see whut you did thar!
Lol, sex with androids..? Expect a news Headline: "Man got electrocuted after ejaculating inside a 'machine'.
Can anyone say "Ghost in the Shell"?
OMG So Scary XD
Ah, awesome! I just love robots, even the kind of creepy ones.
This is the creepiest thing I've ever seen in my life.
waiting for a gigantic EVA like figure to come out... with an umbiliical cord to boot.
androids, cyborgs or whatever mech type, machine people will RULE over US!!!
the humanity!!!
BWAHAHHA!!!
Cyborgs? Wouldn't that technically be us, just with robot bits? Who are we gonna rule over, the Amish?
actually, the definition of a cyborg is any living thing that uses a mechanical means in which to enhance itself, for instance, humans don't have a natural ability to read the time so you wear watches, some people wear glasses to better their vision, others need pace makers to keep their hearts going and so on and so forth...
i guess it really comes down to perspective, while this may seem like a quite literal or lateral meaning, science fiction would have us believe something else entirely...
Guess I am a cyborg then!
Just make a fuckable android already
You just know that eventually people will get tired of this shit and make the robots fight each other to the death.
I'd like to see this Sadako looking hellchild against Boston Dynamics Big Dog.
Big Dog is much more awesome. It can actually move faster than 1km/h and goes cross-country too! Plus it's so cute when it's slipping around on ice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
Yeah Big Dog is much more awesome...
One step closer to a better tomorrow.
BUT...can she suck a bowling ball though a garden hose?
With an industrial vacuum pump accessory, she sure can. The price for the pump is also unlisted at this point in time.
Any plans for a vag yet?
DO NOT WANT!
Surely you mean DO WANT!