Geminoid-F, the Japanese robotic clone of a woman

Posted by ketyung on Mon, Apr 5th, 10 at 9:45 am

There shouldn’t be too much surprise that the Japanese scientists have now managed to make a robotic clone of a human. As shown is the Geminoid-F, which is a robotic clone of a woman. Apparently, in the picture, the one on the left side is the robot and the one on the right is the human.

Although the Geminoid-F claims to be able to mimic facial expressions of human beings, but it looks very much duller than its human sister standing next to her. The robot clone has twelve pneumatic actuators to help it mimic your facial movements such as frowning or smiling. The robot has a camera that captures the facial expressions of the human, and sends data to the robot to get it to follow moving like the original.

This robotic clone was made by famous robot maker, Hiroshi Ishiguro, who intends to sell this robot with a huge price of $110,000. The clip below shows the robotic clone in action.