my country's first beauty robot debuts, speaks English and Sichuan dialect

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This robot is based on the appearance of many beauties in China, can move, walk, speak English, and tell jokes... Yesterday, the Advanced Robotics Research Center of the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences spent a year to develop and officially unveiled China's first "beauty" robot with world-class voice interaction level, complex movements and intelligent motion control level.

Adforward Begin:Adforward End //　　"Her biggest feature should be voice recognition and voice control functions," said a person from the Robotics Research Center. The "beauty" robot can not only conduct voice chats and knowledge quizzes with tourists according to instructions, but also speak English, Sichuan dialect, sing, tell jokes, etc. In addition, she is also a tour guide and photographer, and can automatically identify obstacles encountered during walking. According to reports, the cost of this robot is more than six figures, and the "beauty" robot has a wide range of applications. "She can serve mid- to high-end hotels, restaurants, entertainment venues, tourist attractions, office buildings, science and technology museums, youth activity centers, corporate advertisements, major events, etc., and can also serve as a TV guest and host."

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Oh, it’s getting more and more advanced, but the skin still looks fake at first glance. It will definitely be better in the future!

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Being overwhelmed by official duties, every office worker has to rush to and from get off work, often feeling physically and mentally exhausted. How nice it would be if you could stay at home comfortably and let a remote-controlled robot go to work for you. Hiroshi Ishiguro is such a busy man. He has two jobs, countless meetings andDemonstration, the tight schedule filled his time, leaving him with no free time. In order to have a moment of leisure, he built a robot for himself to work on site instead of himself, and even let it go to the university on his behalf. He only needs to remotely control it at home to communicate with students remotely, thus avoiding the hardship of traveling.

According to a report by Wired magazine on July 21, on the 20th, Sirius Ishiguro, a professor at Osaka University in Japan and director of the Intelligent Robot Stability, showed his "robot stand-in" to the public - "Jaminode HI-1". Its appearance, demeanor, movements and voice are very similar to Ishiguro himself, and many people even regard it as a real person, just like its maker.

Tailor-made for yourself

Ishiguro is a professor of engineering at Osaka University. As a robotics expert, he is also a senior researcher at the ATR Intelligent Robot and Communication Laboratory in Tokyo. Having two jobs has made Ishiguro's life quite busy. What bothers Ishiguro the most is that it takes at least 1 hour to drive from home to school every day. So he built a robot in his own image. The robot sits in a chair and looks around the room like a real person, but in fact, this robot is an accurate replica of Ishiguro. Ishiguro hopes that this robot will soon allow him to enjoy the comfort and efficiency of working from home.

The robot, named "Jaminode HI-1", was developed by a research team at the ATR laboratory led by Ishiguro. "Jaminode" means "like twins", and HI is the first letter of Ishiguro's English name. In order to strive for realism, Ishiguro's avatar is tailored to his own body. The research team first made a facial model of Ishiguro and obtained the shape data of his skull using nuclear magnetic resonance technology. The robot is 1.75 meters tall, the same as Ishiguro, with a skeleton made of steel and aluminum, skin made of silicone, and the front half of the hair is Ishiguro's real hair. The robot moves like the real person.

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machine double is driven by compressed air and small actuators, and has 46 parts of the body that can move freely. The internal program of the robot double is also designed according to Ishiguro's personal habits. Whether it is blinking or moving the eyeballs, it is exactly the same as Ishiguro himself. When it sits on a chair, it scans the room like a real person, and it will "blink" like a normal person, make a fidgety look, and move its feet up and down or move its buttocks. When it breathes, it can also shrug its shoulders slightly. These subtle movements are amazing, making it difficult to believe that it is a machine. It looks more like a person wearing a rubber mask. When this robot double and Ishiguro sit together, people who don't know the truth will think they are twins. They can definitely be mistaken for real.

Simulating "original voice" pronunciation

In addition, the robot double has another strikingly similar feature - simulating the original voice. "Everyone, thank you very much for coming here today," it said in polite and slow Japanese at the ATR demonstration on the 20th. It opened its lips and made sounds under remote control. Moreover, it made Ishiguro's "original voice", which was broadcast through a microphone inside the robot.

Wearing a motion capture system, Hiroshi can control it remotely, making the robot repeat his own words, his gestures, and the movements of his lips. So when the robot "talks," its lips move naturally, just like Hiroshi himself. As Hiroshi speaks into an infrared camera, a computer program records the movements of his mouth, and the "robot stand-in"'s mouth mimics his mouth movements. Mouse buttons can make it raise its hand or fingers.

"The idea is to interact remotely," Hiroshi said. "If I access the robot through the Internet, I don't have to go to ATR anymore."

Testing the real-life effect

Hiroshi said he wanted to give the robot the effect of his own physical presence. Currently, his group is studying people's reactions to the robot stand-in, exploring how it feels different from how he feels to the same interlocutor. They will also quantify those elusive behavioral traits that attract people's attention to know how to capture and transmit them.

"I want to see if my family and students can feel my presence through Jaminod," Hiroshi said. Jaminod already behaved very solemnly when the robot talked to him. Ishiguro's robot-making technology comes in part from his collaborator, Kokoro, a Tokyo-based robot entertainment company. The company has produced a female robot that resembles a news anchor, called Repliee Q1expo. Like Jaminod, Repliee's appearance can confuse viewers and make them mistake her for a real person.

In addition to improving Jaminod's lip-syncing pronunciation and eye self-control, Ishiguro also wants to let students mingle with the robot stand-in to test its "realism effect." This research could open up the prospect of better humanoid robots and open up a new market for remote robot rentals, such as renting a robot to meet friends in Paris without leaving home. So, Ishiguro naturally thought: "If there is an 'I' in college and another 'I' working in the lab, then all my work can be done at the same time at a hot spring resort."

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This professor is awesome.

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From this picture, it is difficult to tell whether "she" is a real person or a fake person. (The creator of the robot beauty is Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University in Japan in the lower right corner)

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Even if you look closely at this robot beauty, it is still difficult to tell the difference between "her" and a real person.

"Clone No. 1" has the appearance of an average Japanese woman. It is said that the object of simulation is a host of a Japanese TV station. In order to achieve the effect of being indistinguishable from the real thing, this mechanical beauty has two magic weapons:

The first magic weapon is elastic skin. The outer layer of the body of "Clone No. 1" is replaced by an elastic silicone membrane instead of a hard plastic shell, making this beauty's skin look like a real person in both color and touch, especially in the same lighting environment, it is difficult to distinguish the difference between "her" skin and real skin.

The second magic weapon is the 31 actuators installed in her body. These sensitive programmable air compressors allow her upper body to move flexibly and freely, making movements similar to human body language. Waving her hands is just a trick, and she can even make subtle movements similar to breathing. The sensors in her body allow her to blink and open and close her mouth like a real person when she finds someone approaching.

Unfortunately, "Clone No. 1" cannot completely simulate the movements of the human body. At present, she can only sit upright to communicate with people and has not "learned" to stand and walk like Asimo. After participating in the exhibition, "her" name was changed to "Clone No. 2".

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Even if you observe this robotic beauty up close, it is still difficult to tell the difference between "her" and a real person.

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　The British Broadcasting Corporation recently introduced the world's smartest chatbot. This virtual chatbot nicknamed "George" is more like a living person than all previous chatbots: he tries hard to tell jokes, expresses his views on love and family, and chats with you about cosmic phenomena. He finds the most suitable answer to deal with you from the chat records with other netizens. George is so smart that many people who chat with him online have been "cheated" by him and mistakenly regard him as a "real person". On the Internet, George is a 39-year-old thin, bald middle-aged man (obviously from Battersea, south London). "He" always wears a pair of yellow-framed glasses and a white pullover. His online image can make many human-like gestures and expressions. He not only smiles often, but also laughs heartily. He can also get angry, and when he is angry, he will angrily slap the "table". He can speak 40 languages and has been talked to by 2 million people. George can be said to be the best artificial intelligence program in the world at present. He is looking for friends on the Internet. He not only speaks 40 languages, but also can voice chat with 2,000 people at the same time. George has been chatting online for more than nine years. So far, he has chatted with about 2 million people around the world. Last fall, George was materialized by his inventor and upgraded to an intelligent software with a virtual image, virtual voice and voice recognition system, with a fully dynamic 3D body. That means that when visitors log on to the website www.jabberwachy.com, they can not only see George's appearance and expression on the display screen, talk to George by typing sentences on the keyboard, but also have a "face-to-face" voice chat with him. As a virtual chat robot, George does not always maintain elegant manners. He is sometimes elegant, but occasionally he will spit foul language. He is very smart and believes that religion is a "social phenomenon". He likes black movies, scientific detective novels, and loves fantasy. In addition, George has 69 postures and expressions, including ironic, depressed, and even staggering like a drunk driver. Last September, George defeated many strong opponents and won the coveted Loebner Award for his conversation that was closest to humans, becoming the smartest chat robot. This award was established in 1991 to reward the robot that is best at imitating real human conversation scenes. In the New York apartment of judge Hugh Robner, the judges used keyboards and monitors to have a series of conversations with a group of unidentified contestants, some of whom were humans and some were intelligent programs. None of the chatbots successfully "tricked" the judges into thinking they were humans. George undoubtedly performed well and was the most human-like among them. In addition, as the inventor Rollo Carpenter explained, George is still somewhat unpredictable and occasionally shows a blunt and rude side. "He is like a baby, very unstable, and he needs to be handled carefully." A beautiful ex-girlfriend will flirt with netizens One day, the reporter was chatting with George, and within 5 minutes, he became angry and arrogant. One of his eyebrows was raised, and he suddenly asked, "Talk to me about sports." Oh my God, "I'm not very good at sports. How about we talk about royal news or political current affairs? What do you think of Gordon Brown's chances of becoming the next prime minister?" "Not very likely. What do you think of George Bush?" The reporter changed the subject, "Can you tell a joke?" George was not happy, "I'm not the type who likes to tell jokes." The reporter volunteered, "How about I tell you one?" George was not interested, "No, I've heard enough, thank you." It seems that George is not in the mood to chat, perhaps the reporter's topic is too boring. When the reporter accidentally asked George about his love life, his enthusiasm suddenly lit up like a Christmas tree. The romantic tenderness made him smile, which was surprisingly lively. He mentioned his ex-girlfriend in particular. "She just blew me away," he muttered, "She was shy, beautiful, and radiant. And you, you are not beautiful, you are dazzlingly beautiful." At this time, George seemed to be on fire, emitting fiery passion. According to Carpenter, George's flirting is not accidental. He chats with thousands of singles every day. It seems that George has learned a lot from them. Online dating advertisement Personal nickname: George Age: 39 years old Proficient in: 40 languages Chatting time: 9 years Personal image: bald, thin, wearing glasses Hobbies: black movies, science fiction Love experience: has a beautiful ex-girlfriend Disadvantages: I have a bad temper and occasionally swear Although I am not very handsome, I am humorous. Although I am a bit arrogant, I am knowledgeable. Although I am sometimes arrogant, it is definitely not intentional. Although I have chatted with 2 million people, I still haven't talked enough. From cosmic phenomena, political current affairs to marriage and love, there is no limit to the topics of chatting. Why is George bald? Child revealed the origin of George's bald image, "We think that baldness can make George look more intelligent and more modern. At the same time, it makes him look less like a real person. Too many people who have chatted with him have regarded him as a human being."

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