Android projects

[jeffbert]

Valerie is billed as "the most advanced android in the world". When I saw this page, I recalled reading that a 'real' Astroboy-like robot was still 15-20 years away. Maybe it will be a bit sooner.

[Astro Forever]

Thank you, it's interesting. I had never heard of her. I couldn't find how she'd get her energy. She would need quite a lot of AA batteries... :huh: According to the main page, she'd cost somewhere around $45,000 to $75,000.

"This android will look like a woman. Why? Because a woman is less threatening than a full-sized adult male."

I suggest a little boy/girl instead! But seriously, she looks a little bit deathly to me...

[1magus]

Im sure they could make a weird looking Astro I wouldent mind having one but I mean he would have no powers and he wouldent be able to fly

[Danny]

I am gonna call bulls*** on this one. Seems amazingly suspicious to me.

So far the closest I have found online to a humanoid robot is Repliee q2. The movies down the bottom will be of high interest. Wish someone would sub them so us non-Japanees-speeking peoples could understand it a little better.

If you google her, you will get quite a lot of information.

[DrFrag]

Compare Valerie to this:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...0610_robot.html (which doesn't even appear to walk)
And Valerie is in retail production already?

"The initial version will be English only"
Not Japanese?

The "sample" voice is a common female synth voice. I use the same voice for Windows sounds on my computer.

And why is the contact person the president of the company? Can't he afford staff?

<_<

[Danny]

U but more effort into your calling Bullsh**, doc. But it appeas we agree.

Your link goes to a different article, but the same robot (Replieeq2) mine does.

omg twinz! ?

[Astro Forever]

Originally posted by DrFrag@Aug 20 2005, 07:23 AM
And Valerie is in retail production already?

It is??? I thought it was still a project! I misread then.

I wasn't about to order one though, I don't feel like having a corpse living with me! :huh: I'd have a heart attack if I met her in the middle of the night!

[fafner]

Originally posted by Astro forever@Aug 21 2005, 06:27 AM
I wasn't about to order one though, I don't feel like having a corpse living with me! :huh: I'd have a heart attack if I met her in the middle of the night!

Add some lights in the eyes, and you might wake up in a Resident Evil atmosphere :wacko:

As for the "artifical intelligence"...

• Rote memory: See "monkey see - monkey do"
• Monkey see - monkey do (visual imitation) : Given a proper visual recognition mecanism, it should be a piece of cake. Did I mention that visual recognition is an intense research study?
• Logical inference: Trivial. Just use a proper knowledge database. They have one, of course... ^_^
• Fuzzy logic: Same as above.
• Neural networks: Yeah, this one is easy: we all have one and we think. So putting it in a machine will do it I just wonder how it will integrate properly with all the stuffs above

Funny as all of the points are trivial, if we neglect the insignificant "details" of implementation

Sorry, I saw people beating a defensless android and I couldn't remain here without helping :wahah:
When will they put an evil smiley in this forum

[jeffbert]

I would imagine her being restricted to activity inside a house is because most of her computer hardware is externally located and linked to her body via broadband. This would greatly reduce the weight and power consumption of the android.

Anybody old enough to rember fembots? No, not the ones on Austin Powers' films. In a related issue, after I read the first 2 paragraghs (in the page mentioned) containing this term, I recall a discussion about why the English version of the 2003 made Atlas a robot from the start. Apparently there is a precedent for kids mutilating themselves in hopes of becoming cyborgs. I wonder if any Japanese children tried this?
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