Life Too Busy? Get an Android Clone!

By Alex in Pictures on Jul 21, 2006 at 10:42 am

Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro has made a clone android of himself called Gemini HI-1:

Hiroshi Ishiguro is a busy man. Between his two jobs, countless meetings and presentations, his demanding schedule was eating up all his time. So he built an android version of himself to pick up the slack.

Ishiguro, a senior researcher at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories outside Kyoto, has created a machine in his own image — a robot that looks and moves exactly like him. It sits on a chair and gazes around the room in a very humanlike fashion, just like its creator. In fact, the robot is an exact duplicate.

Ishiguro’s silicone-and-steel doppelgänger was made from casts taken from his own body. Powered by pressurized air and small actuators, it runs on semiautonomous motion programs.

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  1. rudder
    Jul 21st, 2006 at 2:44 pm

    HAHA, I wonder where the smallest actuator is?

  2. ethic
    Jul 22nd, 2006 at 2:50 pm

    If I’m a middle-aged dumpy scientist that is going to make a robot that looks and moves exactly like a person, I’m going to make it look and move like Kobe Tai, not myself…

    Um.. just sayin…

  3. Collin
    Jul 24th, 2006 at 12:18 pm

    Hmmm. He’s busy, but not too busy to find the time to build a robot of himself?

  4. Ted
    Jul 24th, 2006 at 9:35 pm

    “It sits on a chair and gazes around the room in a very humanlike fashion, just like its creator”?

    Pretty exciting stuff.

    I think he invented it so he could drive in the car pool lane.


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