Yahoo News UK tells us that the Perfect Woman (and soon, the Perfect Man, as well) will be "available" in June. What is this, you ask?
Apparently, this robotic wonder can cook meals, complete household chores, go shopping, give massages, converse about culture and news, among other things. She even has WiFi. It was completed by a few students over 3 years, according to the video.
I took a look at the video and I have to say, I'm a little freaked out by it.
That being said, the whole concept of a fully self-aware, sentient, human-like robot (ala Bishop in Aliens, for example, or Data from Star Trek TNG) is also somewhat scary to me. Although exciting from a scientific standpoint, there's just too much surrounding the issue that leaves me (and I'm guessing, many others) slightly uncomfortable.
Besides, for the price of what these would cost (even within the next 20 years or more) I would probably be happier banking the money, or buying a cat or something. At least, I would know the cat isn't being programmed to like me no matter what. In addition, I would find it pretty boring to be spending a lot of time with someone who doesn't disagree or fight with me sometimes, and whose affection I don't have to work for. That's not my definition of "perfect," but others may feel differently.
So, is it viable for detailed humanoid robots like this to at least substitute somewhat for human contact? Is the technology simply not there yet? Or is it just plain freaky?
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United StatesPersonally, I think it's a prank, and that's not a robot. The facial muscles during the opening enunciation far surpasses any other attempts I've seen.
So does the eye blinking later on.
Compare her to this recent sample from Japan. It's creepy enough, though.
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United StatesI think you could be on to something. I am not enough of an expert to speculate on whether or not it is truly a prank, but it certainly seems likely, given what it promises the robot can do.
Maybe she can cook a meal, for example, but they need to define what "cook" entails. Same for going shopping, conversing about news and other things. Maybe they consider her saying "Oh, that's great" as having a conversation, for example.
I'm intrigued as to how the coverage on this will pan out, and if the scientific community finds out that this is truly a prank, or at least, misleading.
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Jacksonville, United StatesI too think this is a prank, if you watch very closly you'll see her sway a little and also the toung moves, Very good makeup though.
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Melbourne, AustraliaI haven't watched the video's, but my (renamed for kids) scam-o-meter is going off the scale.
At first I tried to locate the original article (website tend to source material from other websites), but I dead ended at a blog post several sites in. Looks like it may have originated in france, and since I don't read french...
I don't know if any of you have looked at the website
http://www.perfect-woman.com/en/
Notice the news column on the left hand side, pay particular attention to the dates of the news items. In just 24 days, they obtained funding, built a prototype, did beta testing, and filmed a TV commercial. Impressive.
The website itself is less than a month old. According to Whois, it was registered on 2008-04-29. I was hoping for a date more congruent with an April fools day joke. The company is based in Japan, but the website is hosted in France. Also of interest, the domain expires in 2009. For comparison, WowWee.com expires in 2013, RoboCommunity.com expires in 2012, and my own personal domain expires in 2014. Obviously they didn't see the cost benefits (or any other benefits) for registering the domain for the long term.
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Nelson, New ZealandI see that the video is no longer available!!
People yearn after this robotic dream, but you can't strip your life of all meaning, emotion and feeling and expect to function.
Robotic madness http://robosapienv2-4mem8.page.tl/
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United StatesI just viewed it again. Still there.
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United StatesIn fact, there are additional videos on YouTube now.
They've got a nice spoof going on.
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United StatesJust looking at the list of tasks it can do makes it pretty obvious that it`s junk. Ever seen ASIMO cook?
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United StatesIt seems they should have timed this better with April Fools Day, eh?
There's no doubt in my mind that the "robot" in the most recently posted video is of course, human. It wasn't done anywhere nearly as well as the first video.
If they had just stuck with the first video, they may have been (will be?) able to keep this up for a little while longer - the actress playing the "robot" there is very, very convincing at first glance.
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Jacksonville, United Statesgood thing I already have a perfect women, my wife.... noting like the real thing
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Melbourne, AustraliaAaah.... Your wife doesn't by chance read this site does she GWJax?
It might not be a joke as such, it might be linked to something else, and we are just seeing it out of context.
Like coming across say, this site, with out any idea about the movie.
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Jacksonville, United Stateslol, no my wife does not read the site, ha ha. I'll check out the link in a little bit N.
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United StatesI don't think the world is quite ready for the Cherry 2000 just yet.
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My first reaction was (and still is) the same as most of yours. I noticed the swaying from side to side in the first video myself, and was going to comment on it if someone had not done so already. (Thanks GW Jax) I did not notice the tongue move though, I will have to go back and watch again for that.
As mentioned, the Second video is much more obvious. They got to close to her and spent more time on her as the focus in this clip, allowing us to see more of the flaws.
If this was a real robot, don't you think the world would be a buzz with it by now! It would be on the news, in the papers, and plastered all over the net. It would be to much of a "Break Through" to just go quietly slipping by like this. It took months and years to get Asimo to walk on his own and balance on stairs... Yet almost over night comes this pretty "Perfect" lady that can shop and cook?
So yeah... my vote is in the HOAX arena for this one.
However... It is clever, I'll give them that! lol
the eyes are a dead give away ..... this RITE is not a robot. SO try this for youself . hold your finger up infront of a (frined-family member) about six inc from there face . say look at my finger , now if you move your finger up and down ,lift and right about 3 to 4 inc - there eyes will move bout there head will stand still . now hold your finger still and say move your head a little,up down and lift and right. there head will move BUT there eyes will be still . robots don't or can't do this yet. on the second vido RITE'S eyes track the camera as she revolve.
it's the little thing's that it is hard to get right
i still believe
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Jacksonville, United StatesCan you say PhotoShop rendering?
GWJax, To Hack and make mods on robots is a life style and comes natural and not by choice. If a robot has a screw to open it then it must be opened!
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United StatesNot even a particularly good photoshop effort.
Compare and contrast with Summer Glow's conversion to Cameron from the Sarah Connor Chronicles.
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ABSOLUTELY! From the photos alone... I would be more likely to believe that Summer was a robot than I would the pic from the "Perfect Woman". LOL Plus, you gotta love some cold, hard, shiny Chrome! LOL
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Jacksonville, United Statessummer is really HOT! now that she is 18yrs of age now. thats a running joke here at my house! hehe
GWJax, To Hack and make mods on robots is a life style and comes natural and not by choice. If a robot has a screw to open it then it must be opened!
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United Statesthis is definitely a hoax. no question about it.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke
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Orange County, United StatesI knew it was junk when i first heard of it like a month ago. There just just trying to get money or something. Even the Actroids cant walk yet. Apparently i have researched a little on a project called "manny"the robotic mannequin and apparently they got him to walk with human like legs, but i think that is junk also!there are no videos of it. We have not the technology yet to get a robot to walk with human shaped legs especially female ones!
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Jacksonville, United StatesI say give it another 10 years and then maybe!
GWJax, To Hack and make mods on robots is a life style and comes natural and not by choice. If a robot has a screw to open it then it must be opened!
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