Woman or machine? New robots look creepily human

Ramani Aswath · 2014-06-25T21:35:59+00:00

Quote: The new robot guides at a Tokyo museum look so eerily human and speak so smoothly they almost outdo people - almost. Japanese robotics expert Hiroshi Ishiguro, an Osaka University professor, says they will be useful for research on how people interact with robots and on what differentiates the person from the machine. Endquote <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/06/24/robots-creepily-human/11302235/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Woman or machine? New robots look creepily human</a>

Woman or machine? New robots look creepily human

Ramani Aswath
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Updated: Jun 25, 2014

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The new robot guides at a Tokyo museum look so eerily human and speak so smoothly they almost outdo people - almost.
Japanese robotics expert Hiroshi Ishiguro, an Osaka University professor, says they will be useful for research on how people interact with robots and on what differentiates the person from the machine.
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zaveri

Member • Jun 25, 2014

I feel like laughing.😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

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Harry Decia

Member • Jun 29, 2014

🎉Technology has brought tremendous revolution in all fields, it brings the world at a foot stool.Robotic engineering making new world of machines,but these machines are dangerous for us...

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Ankita Katdare

Administrator • Jun 29, 2014

Some people might've thought, we will never need to use the adverb 'eerily' before the word 'human'.

😁 what technology does.

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zaveri

Member • Jul 1, 2014

Harry Decia
🎉Technology has brought tremendous revolution in all fields, it brings the world at a foot stool.Robotic engineering making new world of machines,but these machines are dangerous for us...
so i see

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Anoop Kumar

Member • Jul 1, 2014

Howard Wolowits required an attention here 😯

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Karthikeyan jaisankar

Member • Jul 1, 2014

None of the robots can replace as HUMAN👍

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zaveri

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Karthikeyan jaisankar
None of the robots can replace as HUMAN👍
You are probably the only guy here who said something sensible.

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Karthikeyan jaisankar

Member • Jul 1, 2014

Thank you soo much dear friend 😀 #-Link-Snipped-#

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Ramani Aswath

Member • Jul 1, 2014

Karthikeyan jaisankar
None of the robots can replace as HUMAN👍
I am afraid that they are already replacing humans for many repetitive jobs. Many of them (not humanoids but the pick and place kind) are being used even in some of the units of the group I work for.

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Anoop Kumar

Member • Jul 1, 2014

Watch any documentary of leading car production line and you will know how many humans are replaced completely.
Watch Nat Geo (factory made, how they do it).

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Ankit Litoriya

Member • Jul 2, 2014

We made machine's because a man cant be 100 % accurate all the tym .. n we are discovering such devices ,every man's mindset cant be 100% dedicated and upto the technology we r working for , on the other hand a program in machine can do the same ...If all of us can develop ourselves upto the level of machines then their is no need of bots ..... and also if we can see rate of growth of humans (population) is much more than machines nowadays than y we r horrifying from machines ... jus stand out and do your work sincerely
u will find machines helpful to us not harmful

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Harry Decia

Member • Jul 10, 2014

A.V.Ramani
I am afraid that they are already replacing humans for many repetitive jobs. Many of them (not humanoids but the pick and place kind) are being used even in some of the units of the group I work for.
I totally agree with you Sir, the results will be disaster,,,,,👎

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Harry Decia

Member • Jul 10, 2014

Ankit Litoriya
We made machine's because a man cant be 100 % accurate all the tym .. n we are discovering such devices ,every man's mindset cant be 100% dedicated and upto the technology we r working for , on the other hand a program in machine can do the same ...If all of us can develop ourselves upto the level of machines then their is no need of bots ..... and also if we can see rate of growth of humans (population) is much more than machines nowadays than y we r horrifying from machines ... jus stand out and do your work sincerely
u will find machines helpful to us not harmful
i agree with you, what you have written,but very soon these machines conquer the human.

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Ankit Litoriya

Member • Jul 10, 2014

Dear #-Link-Snipped-# ..How would say that they conquer human untill or unless we dont taught them to do so..

Have u find ever that your phone stoping u to attend call, ur system saying that i will not install this app anyway or being able to save any stuff ????

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Ramani Aswath

Member • Jul 11, 2014

Ankit Litoriya
Dear #-Link-Snipped-# ..How would say that they conquer human untill or unless we dont taught them to do so..
The human brain is said to have a 10^18 level of connectivity. If a computer achieves this sometime, it can teach itself.

IT is sci fi now.
Ten years hence?

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Ankit Litoriya

Member • Jul 11, 2014

A.V.Ramani
The human brain is said to have a 10^18 level of connectivity. If a computer achieves this sometime, it can teach itself.

IT is sci fi now.
Ten years hence?
Sir,

But it depends on us that how much we need a from a robot , how much a machine can program it self ..because of this fear i don't think its wise to hate robots.

Think about stone age , if a men of that time fears of to be scratched or of die while using cart ( As they don't have idea of using breaks initially ) then how a human can able invent such useful vehicles.

And also, if we don't let a robot to teach itself then is it possible that a robot able to reach the same connectivity as us.

A robot can be friendly in so many ways . yeahh!! but it only depend on us
how we use them!!

Please Let me correct if am thinking wrong !

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Ramani Aswath

Member • Jul 11, 2014

I suggest that you read "Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress</a>

Have a look at this short video which shows how a robot learns to walk without knowing anything to start with. You can watch the full video later if you are keen:

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Ankit Litoriya

Member • Jul 12, 2014

😯 Thanks for the Video #-Link-Snipped-#

😖😔 have nothing to say ,, i am reading about this from the instant i read your post ...i don't want to let myself discouraged will sure come with suitable answer.

Thanks Again sir and too need your apology if somewhere i am messed you unnecessarily.😯😯😯

A.V.Ramani
I suggest that you read "Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress</a>

Have a look at this short video which shows how a robot learns to walk without knowing anything to start with. You can watch the full video later if you are keen:

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Ramani Aswath

Member • Jul 12, 2014

Ankit Litoriya
😯 Thanks for the Video #-Link-Snipped-#
Thanks Again sir and too need your apology if somewhere i am messed you unnecessarily.😯😯😯
The question of aplogy does not arise at all. How else can we explore the subject?
E=mC^2 led to the atom bomb. That does not mean that we should give up physics. In a sense scientists are amoral. They go after things because that is their passion.
The well known British biologist Prof.J.B.S.Haldane (I have talked with him a few times when he came to Andhra University in 1958) told how he used to do experiments on his own body. How to be your own rabbit was his suggestion.

If robots become sentient, so be it.

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Ankit Litoriya

Member • Jul 13, 2014

A.V.Ramani
If robots become sentient, so be it.
Then its like we have another kind of species on earth whose creator is human.

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Ramani Aswath

Member • Jul 13, 2014

Ankit Litoriya
Then its like we have another kind of species on earth whose creator is human.
On the biology front humans are experimenting with genetic engineering, cloning and such. Humans are trying to imitate the original Creator.

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Chaitanya Kukde

Member • Jul 15, 2014

Ankita Katdare
Some people might've thought, we will never need to use the adverb 'eerily' before the word 'human'.

😁 what technology does.
The point you are trying to make may be the Uncanny Valley hypothesis. It says: "...as the appearance of a robot is made more human a point is reached beyond which the response quickly becomes that of strong revulsion..."

Hell Yeah 👍 =>

Hell Yeah 👍 =>

Nope😲 =>

Too much internet today. Nope => 😲

Last but not the least since we all are engineers here, the mandatory graph explaining the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Uncanny Valley</a>:

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