Japanese have developed the robot-supermodel

June 9th, 2009

The Japanese engineers have shown on March, 16th the robot which can replace models on the Tokyo podiums, transfers AFP. Gumanoidnyj robot HRP-4C represents “girl” with hair to shoulders and with a metal body.

In the robot 42 motors co-ordinating its movement and simulating gait of model settle down. Growth HRP-4C makes 158 centimetres. It is average growth of the Japanese girls. The Robot-model together with batteries weighs only 43 kgs.

HRP-4C Is able to accept various poses and to smile. It can be operated through Bluetooth. At the same time at display sound gauges of the robot have once misapprehended a sound from a camera, on what HRP-4C has reacted a strange look.

Robot creation has managed to developers approximately in two million dollars. The base model will be on sale for 200 thousand dollars. While HRP-4C it will be applied only in show business. To buy it at retail it will be impossible.

It is expected that robot debut on a podium will take place on the Tokyo fashion parade on March, 23rd.

Legless Japanese Robot

June 8th, 2009

Back in the end of the year 1999, Japan has passed the Robot were newsletters and site Geocities to presence of its own area - www.robot-japan.com (later, the area has been bought without a hyphen). More low minor page which has added the Encyclopedia “in constuction”.

The robot Varnishes, has, these are the modest beginnings in pre-ebay the publication known as toy Shop. I advertised and finished that has involved a considerable quantity of the tin collector of the robot and several cast under the pressure of the collector as Mike Parisi California. And thus it has begun; curtailed articles of news on 8 pages have been sent round the country to the collector. Thank God for coming Internet age! Here there was an announcement to begin things:

Japanese catwalk robot

June 8th, 2009

The female humanoid a bit oversized eyes, a tiny nose and hair of length of a shoulder has 42 engines of movement programmed to imitate movements of a flesh-and-blood by a model fashion.

“Greetings everything, I - cybernetic human HRP-4C,” have told futuristic fashionista, opening its premiere of mass-media at National Institute of the Advanced Industrial Science and technics out of Tokyo.

The fashion larva makes 5 foots 2 ins, the average height of young Japanese women, but is weighed in 95 pounds similar to the tramp (43 kgs) – including batteries.

Appearing before photographers and television commands, the seductive cyborg has struck the poses, the highlighted smiles and pouted having inflated according to transferred wirelessly commands through bluetooth devices.

Work has lost faultless when it sometimes mixed up the looks – an error the inventors suppressed to a case of nerves as the hailstones of a sun blind of the chamber have mixed its sound gauges of a recognition.

It has an a bit manga-inspired human face, but a silver metal body.

“If we have made the robot too similar to the real person it would be strange,” one of inventors has told, the humanoid investigate leader Shuji Kajita. “We have purposely tended to style аниме.”

The institute has told that the robot “has been developed mainly for use in show business”, but is not on sale now.

“We represented it to draw attention in a society,” has told Junji Ito, the higher official at institute which has told that he saw HRP-4C as a going stone to creation гуманоидной the industries.

“It is important that people feel well about humanoids and wish to work with them,” he has told. “We passed from the dry mechanical image to very human image.”

Preliminary viewing was warm-up for appearance of the robot on fashion show of Tokyo on March, 23rd.

How its real copies, HRP-4C orders the huge price – the institute has told development and construction of its cost more than 200 million yens (? 1.4 million).

Hirohisa Hirukawa, other researcher, has told that the institute hoped коммерциализировать the humanoid in the future.

The Model G8 Network

June 4th, 2009

The Model G8 Youth Summit is organized by a network of independent, national organizing committees, known as The Model G8 Network. Each national organizing committee is responsible for recruiting its own delegation as well as organizing the Youth Summit during its respective government’s Presidency of the G8.