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Robo Hottie

ercoerco Posts: 20,256
edited 2010-11-02 15:37 in Robotics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIcUjcAy2Yw&NR=1

Robot "supermodel"? Cute face, but I still think WowWee's diminutive Femisapien has a sexier walk.

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  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2010-10-26 13:38
    "powered on battery motors" :lol:

    Rich H
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2010-10-26 15:36
    Well that was strange.
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2010-10-27 04:28
    Have you seen how fast Japan is advancing these humanoid robots? It won't be long and we'll see these interacting with humans in public. It's two million dollar Science and Technology contract is going to advance this robot further. I think the previous posted vid (url) showing her dancing (wearing clothes) is totally amazing. I'm sure it will not take another 20 to 30 years to get smoother motions. It's just around the corner. Interesting how robots now clearly have gender. In the future you will be able to select the details of your home robot.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2010-10-31 21:43
    Alt: here's a pic of a robot with a human hottie, by someone's definition: http://cgi.ebay.com/1955-Gismo-Paceful-Robot-Hottie-His-Arm-/270655180705?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item3f044e4fa1
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2010-11-01 17:19
    The English language doesn't apply the concept of gender to inanimate objects. So as a native speaker of English I find applying the concept of gender to non-living things to be hard to wrap my mind around. This is not true for the Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, etc) which use masculine and feminine for everything.

    Since the Japanese seem to want to build robots with a gender. Does any know if the Japanese language is more like English or the Romance languages?
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-11-01 19:12
    Martin H wrote:
    The English language doesn't apply the concept of gender to inanimate objects.
    For the most part, that's true, but ships are still referred to as "she". Even languages with strong "gendrification" get it weird sometimes. For example, in German, Frau is feminine, but Fr
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2010-11-01 20:38
    Phil, I agree that English has a few random grammatical genders thrown in. Because in English all rules must have an exception as a trap to the unwary! My favorite is blonde and blond which are French loan words. For extra fun they are pronounced identically, but blonde is the feminine form in writing only!
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2010-11-02 08:35
    Martin_H wrote: »
    The English language doesn't apply the concept of gender to inanimate objects. So as a native speaker of English I find applying the concept of gender to non-living things to be hard to wrap my mind around. This is not true for the Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, etc) which use masculine and feminine for everything.

    Since the Japanese seem to want to build robots with a gender. Does any know if the Japanese language is more like English or the Romance languages?
    The Japanese language model has major gender differences between men and women. It is so entrenched in the language that even the same Japanese language between men and woman is spoken differently. Interesting, in Chinese language, there is no gender, and you must know the context of reading, writing and speaking. (In speaking English, the Chinese will periodically change a man into a woman and visa versa) In practice, English often applies gender to inanimate objects. Not only ships, but hurricanes, typhoons, storms, dogs, pets, projects, works of art, objects of great beauty, objects difficult to handle, stories, and probably hundreds of other examples. Even now, we can count several electronic voice synthesizers with male and female versions and singing vocoders with male and female intonations singing in English.
  • RavenkallenRavenkallen Posts: 1,057
    edited 2010-11-02 15:37
    The video was removed...Darn!!
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