Posted by ketyung
on Mar/17/2009
at 8:14 am
Forget about American Next Top Model, as some humanoid female model robots will come to the United States in a few years’ time to replace the human fashion models.
In Japan, such a kind of a walking, talking humanoid fashion model robot has already surfaced. But, luckily, these female robots seem to have some glitches, which the catwalk performed by them was so clumsy that is very unlikely acceptable by the fashion industry.
The Japanese’s fashion model robot is called HRP-4C, developed by Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). Each of these bots has 30 motors in her body, is 62 inches tall and weighs 95 lb. She also has 8 motors in her face, allowing her to make certain expressions to the crowd, like anger and surprise.
Apparently the female model bot is still lacking some kind of liveliness on her face. The first picture above is supposed to show her anger, but instead, she looks more like sleepy than being angry.
Anyway, the maker is eager to push these bots out in the upcoming fashion show in Tokyo that is scheduled to begin next week. Take a look at the video of the HRP-4C in action below:
May 9th, 2009 at 12:20 am
She’s still amazingly cute though.
June 27th, 2009 at 11:31 am
having grown up feeding my brain with sci-fi, i can’t help but get really excited about the great progress being made in the field of robotics. perhaps someday i can have a robot buddy!