21 Dec 2014

world's first news-reading robot


People really wondering it was a real news reader. She also twitched their eye brows, blinked and swayed her head from side-to-side.just as you’d expect with real newscasters. However, she also delivered it without much facial movement, leaving her looking like a ventriloquist without a dummy. As for her body movements, it seemed as if she might’ve put her back out shortly before delivering the bulletin. Robot-powered news readers have been unveiled by scientists in Japan.'kodomo' meaning child and android - delivered news to viewers in Tokyo. The unveiling in Japan recently of the first ever news-reading android. Actually, having seen the robot in action, there really is no need for any quaking. Kodomoroid (‘Childroid’) was shown off at Tokyo’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation as part of an exhibition examining the relationship between robots and humans. Together with another android called Otonaroid (‘Adultroid’), the pair were shown off by Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at the Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering Science. His moving mannequin could pull more than 60 different facial expressions. While at the museum, Kodomoroid and Otonaroid will also interact with visitors to help Ishiguro gather data for a study looking at how humans deal with and respond to robots. In the demonstration, the newsreading android - which scientists claim is the world's first - spoke smoothly and moved her lips in time to a voice-over.The Osaka professor has been developing androids for the last 20 years and is keen to see the technology used in a wider range of roles in the future. 

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